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    Nat King Cole

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    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

    #entertainers #frighten #guinea #guinea pig #hurt

    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

    #buys #compete #heart #i #know

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


    — Nat King Cole

    #fairy #i #interpreter #like #perform

    I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. ↗


    — Nat King Cole

    #i #make #money #music #music business

    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

    #buck #day #guy #happy #him

    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

    #america #back #communists #court #her

    If I could read it, I could play it. ↗


    — Nat King Cole

    #i #if i could #play #read

    It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. ↗


    — Nat King Cole

    #governing #people #problems #racial #racial problems

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


    — Nat King Cole

    #good #make #only #only time #plenty

    People don't slip. Time catches up with them. ↗


    — Nat King Cole

    #people #slip #them #time #up






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    Cole's first mainstream vocal hit was his 1943 recording of one of his compositions "Straighten Up and Fly Right" based on a black folk tale that his father had used as a theme for a sermon. " It became the first radio program sponsored by a black performing artist. He owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.

    He owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres. Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show The Nat King Cole Show and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in February 1965.

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