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A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airCool down, papa, don't you blow your top."
— Nat King Cole
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Nat King Cole
singer-songwriter, pianist, actor, jazz musician, jazz guitarist, television actor, musician
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1919 – 1965
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
All Quotes by 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."
— Nat King Cole
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Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
— Nat King Cole
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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.
— Nat King Cole
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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.
— Nat King Cole
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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.
— Nat King Cole
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
— Nat King Cole
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
— Nat King Cole
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There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
— Nat King Cole
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
— Nat King Cole