Nat "king" Cole Quotes
March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965
More Nat "king" Cole Quotes
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, If you just smile.
Nat "king" Cole— "Smile" (1954)
A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack...""Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top."
Nat "king" Cole— "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.
Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
Nat "king" Cole— Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor. (1956) Quoted in article at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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.
Nat "king" Cole— British interview (1963)
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— As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat "king" Cole— As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings
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.
Nat "king" Cole— Spoken in VOA interview broadcast on Pop Chronicles Show 22 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream.
