"Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."

“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, The Early Years”

“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.”

“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.”

“Songwriters Hall of Fame”

“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.”