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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
Explore more quotes by Nat King Cole

"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."

"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."

"I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself."

"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."

"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."

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