The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
- Nat King Cole
Chance, Integrating, Having, Integrate
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
- Nat King Cole
Time, Them, Up, Slip
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
Business, Genius, Being, So Much Money
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
- Nat King Cole
Proud, Propaganda, Knocks, Communists
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
- Nat King Cole
Some, Other, Entertainers, Guinea
The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
- Nat King Cole
Hit, Get, Cash Register, Sheriff
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
- Nat King Cole
Work, Education, Will, Only Time
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.
- Nat King Cole
Ease, Performer, Like, Applaud
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
Mind, Very, Slipping, Frame
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
- Nat King Cole
Like, Stories, Telling, Interpreter
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
- Nat King Cole
Money, Income, Figure, Income Tax
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
- Nat King Cole
Other, Citizen, Entitled, American Citizen
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
- Nat King Cole
Create, Governing, South, Problems
If I could read it, I could play it.
- Nat King Cole
Play, Could, Read, If I Could
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
Reach, Other, Works, Buck
The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
- Nat King Cole
Horse, Racing, Horse Racing, Not Interested
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
Some, TV, Agencies, Prejudice
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
- Nat King Cole
Food, Once, Although, Meat
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
Movies, See, Even, Bear
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
- Nat King Cole
Death, Play, Other, Trio
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
Compete, Singers, Buys, Musician
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
- Nat King Cole
Television, Stop, Get, Smoking
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
- Nat King Cole
Famous, African American, African
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
- Nat King Cole
Pretty, Like, Well Known, Breaking
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
- Nat King Cole
Records, Get, Buy, Critics
You've got to change with the public's taste.
- Nat King Cole
Change, Got, Public, Taste
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
- Nat King Cole
Business, Music, Money, Music Business
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
- Nat King Cole
Music, Harmony, Through, Helping
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
- Nat King Cole
Music, Nothing, Always, Talking
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