Nat King Cole quote: "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."

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it lose...
NAT KING COLE

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are govern...
NAT KING COLE

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audi...
NAT KING COLE

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

The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'...
NAT KING COLE

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the ...
NAT KING COLE

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight o...
NAT KING COLE

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
NAT KING COLE

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other N...
NAT KING COLE

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

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

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

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the ho...
NAT KING COLE

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
NAT KING COLE

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the...
NAT KING COLE

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
NAT KING COLE

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
NAT KING COLE

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved t...
NAT KING COLE

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real si...
NAT KING COLE

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

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
NAT KING COLE

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I g...
NAT KING COLE

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
NAT KING COLE

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn'...
NAT KING COLE

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
NAT KING COLE

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respe...
NAT KING COLE

I've worked too long and too hard to play in some little joint for $65 a night, ... In New York, jaz...
NAT KING COLE

Well, I'm always introduced as Nat Cole's brother, Ike Cole's brother and Natalie Cole's uncle. So I...
NAT KING COLE

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot o...
NAT KING COLE

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I g...
NAT KING COLE

A Raisin in the Sun.
NAT KING COLE

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I...
NAT KING COLE

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
NAT KING COLE

He got it, man, ... Clay understands the music. I've been fortunate in my career. But it's a tough f...
NAT KING COLE

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
NAT KING COLE

Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That ...
NAT WOLFF

Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a...
NAT WOLFF

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
NAT WOLFF

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi...
NAT WOLFF

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
NAT WOLFF

Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, t...
NAT WOLFF

When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
NAT WOLFF

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that...
NAT WOLFF

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skippe...
NAT WOLFF

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's ...
NAT WOLFF

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa...
NAT WOLFF

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been ...
NAT WOLFF

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
NAT WOLFF

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
NAT WOLFF

'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be...
NAT WOLFF

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
NAT WOLFF

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea...
NAT WOLFF

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare ...
NAT WOLFF

There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked...
NAT WOLFF

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
NAT WOLFF

Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind maste...
NAT TURNER

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile ...
NAT TURNER

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would pre...
NAT TURNER

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
NAT FRIEDMAN

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparentl...
NAT FRIEDMAN

We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions ...
NAT FRIEDMAN

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
NAT FRIEDMAN

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, a...
NAT FRIEDMAN

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators...
NAT FRIEDMAN

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the nea...
NAT FRIEDMAN

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Li...
NAT FRIEDMAN

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger ...
NAT FRIEDMAN

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
NAT FRIEDMAN

The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then i...
NAT FAXON

There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly wh...
NAT FAXON

Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you&...
NAT FAXON

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nant...
NAT FAXON

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
NAT BURTON

It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite...
NAT WOLFF

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the N...
NAT TURNER

I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I sti...
NAT WOLFF

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy...
NAT TURNER

I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darken...
NAT TURNER

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz...
NAT WOLFF

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in soc...
NAT TURNER

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experime...
NAT TURNER

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
NAT WOLFF

I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
NAT FAXON

Salt Lake has a shot at the playoffs, and we are the team standing in their way,
NAT BORCHERS

We were backpacking in the backcountry. We covered several hundred miles. Did a lot of off-trail stu...
NAT KEEFE

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience a...
NAT FRIEDMAN

GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have ...
NAT FRIEDMAN

In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the mo...
PAUL NAT

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alt...
NAT FRIEDMAN

As I grew older, I realized that no matter how hard you keep your shoes clean – especially the mid...
PAUL NAT

It's a big event, no doubt, ... and I thought I would be more nervous. I'm just really prepared and ...
NAT DORSEY

We wanted [co-teaching] to have a practical effect to counter class size.
NAT HARRINGTON

You have to address the basic issue of supply or you will forever be chasing this problem.
NAT ROBERTS

We're probably going to have a tree planted during the course of the day, but this event is planned ...
MAYOR NAT BAKER

Horn Lake is a Tree City USA city, and we're proud of our trees. We wanted to hold something that wo...
MAYOR NAT BAKER

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I&#...
CHERYL COLE

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel...
TAYLOR COLE

I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the '...
TAYLOR COLE

Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
TAYLOR COLE

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. COLE

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the mus...
J. COLE

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot ...
J. COLE

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ...
J. COLE

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ...
J. COLE

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser...
J. COLE

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never...
J. COLE

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in...
J. COLE

Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
NATALIE COLE

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
NATALIE COLE

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really g...
NATALIE COLE

As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our ...
NATALIE COLE

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian fait...
NATALIE COLE

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when y...
NATALIE COLE

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
NATALIE COLE

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite....
NATALIE COLE

The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after tha...
NATALIE COLE

I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've l...
NATALIE COLE

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
NATALIE COLE

One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i...
NATALIE COLE

I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
NATALIE COLE

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for...
NATALIE COLE

A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have heal...
NATALIE COLE

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up...
NATALIE COLE

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
NATALIE COLE

God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, an...
NATALIE COLE

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and ...
NATALIE COLE

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is...
NATALIE COLE

I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must b...
NATALIE COLE

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
NATALIE COLE

Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
NATALIE COLE

Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He h...
COLE SWINDELL

Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul...
COLE SWINDELL

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad abo...
LILY COLE

There has been a fairly marked recovery in retail demand that has created a slightly greater lift in...
ALAN COLE

There are other kitchens running locally, but you know there are lots of folks who may not get the r...
ALAN COLE

We got an e-mail before we got here and the Red Cross needs 300,000 meals a day for 90 days and poss...
ALAN COLE

We had a lot of trouble at the Grove and the guys stayed up all night getting the cars ready to come...
ALAN COLE

I saw Keith there at the end so I guess he was pretty close. Charlie gives us real good stuff and I ...
ALAN COLE

I've been coming here a long time trying to win one of these fair races. It's real nice to finally g...
ALAN COLE

This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us wh...
ALAN COLE

We need to take care of people that are out there busting their butts trying to make it; that's ...
COLE SWINDELL

Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here s...
COLE SWINDELL

Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
GARY COLE

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
GARY COLE

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
GARY COLE

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a ...
GARY COLE

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
GARY COLE

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the...
GARY COLE

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
GARY COLE

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera s...
GARY COLE

I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
GARY COLE

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San F...
GARY COLE

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
GARY COLE

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've d...
GARY COLE

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
GARY COLE

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
GARY COLE

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
GARY COLE

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
GARY COLE

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks ...
GARY COLE

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
GARY COLE

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
GARY COLE

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
GARY COLE

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
GARY COLE

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
GARY COLE

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
GARY COLE

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
GARY COLE

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE

Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come beca...
MARCUS COLE

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE

Being a big Braves fan, Turner Field would be cool to play a show at.
COLE SWINDELL

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in ...
KRESLEY COLE

Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put ...
NATALIE COLE

I think the market has got too pessimistic on interest rates,
ADAM COLE

is still hoping to squeeze one more interest rate cut in.
ADAM COLE

The broad picture shows the economy is growing at much the same pace in the third as the second quar...
ADAM COLE

We would expect the Fed to say something about Katrina and what it means for the immediate and long-...
ADAM COLE

The risk is that the deficit is rather worse than the market is looking for and if that's the case i...
ADAM COLE

Even if these (falls) reverse partially next month, this is very bad news on domestic demand.
ADAM COLE

The market is increasingly seeing a risk that the Fed pauses in its rate cycle -- not only that but ...
ADAM COLE

You can give them the ability to get more junk in there, for better or worse; they like it.
ADAM COLE

This flies in the face of mounting evidence that things are looking up for Germany, so the market se...
ADAM COLE

If we do buy the Japan recovery story, then there is probably more buying to be done and that is sti...
ADAM COLE

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anythi...
COLE PORTER

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't underst...
JUAN COLE

You can't help but be in a good mood around Blake Shelton. I felt like I always knew him even th...
COLE VOSBURY

...a woman's voice said, "if you've reached this message and you weren't trying to contact Regin the...
KRESLEY COLE

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
KRESLEY COLE

...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.
EMM COLE

His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would...
KRESLEY COLE

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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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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