Quotes by Nat King Cole

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”

“I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.”

“The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.”

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

“The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.”

“There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.”

“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 l...”

“The buzzard told the monkey You're chokin' meRelease your hold and I'll set you freeThe monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and saidYour story's touching but it sounds like a lie.”