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..
– Nat King Cole
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
– Nat King Cole
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
– Nat King Cole
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
– Nat King Cole
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.