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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole
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Nat King Cole
Age: 45 †
Born: 1919
Born: March 17
Died: 1965
Died: February 15
Actor
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Nathaniel Adams Coles
Nat “King” Cole
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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I ... started out to become a jazz pianist in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
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If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
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Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
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