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Top 30 Nat King Cole Quotes (2025 Update)

Nat King Cole Quote: “Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that’s how you’ll stay.”

1. “Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that’s how you’ll stay.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.”

2. “If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Nat King Cole Quote: “There’s just one thing I can’t figure out. My income tax!”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I’m in the music business for one purpose – to make money.”

8. “I’m in the music business for one purpose – to make money.”

— Nat King Cole

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.”

9. “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.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Critics don’t buy records. They get ’em free.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Smile and maybe tomorrow you’ll see that life is still worth while if you just smile.”

11. “Smile and maybe tomorrow you’ll see that life is still worth while if you just smile.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “People don’t slip. Time catches up with them.”

12. “People don’t slip. Time catches up with them.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

13. “Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.”

14. “If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it’s too late or before you’re too old, you’ll pull through all right.”

15. “I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it’s too late or before you’re too old, you’ll pull through all right.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I’m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “The only sport I’m not interested in is horse racing. That’s because I don’t know the horses personally.”

17. “The only sport I’m not interested in is horse racing. That’s because I don’t know the horses personally.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Oh, my darling, it’s incredible, that someone so unforgettable should think I am unforgettable, too.”

18. “Oh, my darling, it’s incredible, that someone so unforgettable should think I am unforgettable, too.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I can’t bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself.”

21. “I can’t bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.”

22. “I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.”

23. “I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Nat King Cole Quote: “If I could read it, I could play it.”

25. “If I could read it, I could play it.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.”

26. “I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “Primarily I’m a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?”

28. “The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “It’s not the people in the South who create racial problems – it’s the people who are governing.”

29. “It’s not the people in the South who create racial problems – it’s the people who are governing.”

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “The only prejudice I’ve found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn’t so much prejudice as just fear.”

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

— Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Quote: “You’ve got to change with the public’s taste.”

31. “You’ve got to change with the public’s taste.”

— Nat King Cole

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