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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

~Nat King Cole

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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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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

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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'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

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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.

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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 17th, 1919

Died: February 15th, 1965

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