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There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole
Income
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
Music
May
Mind
Will
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Nat King Cole
Education
Work
Time
Will
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole
Time
People
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
Nat King Cole
Man
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
Fear
Advertising
Prejudice
The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
Nat King Cole
Horses
Racing
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole
Music
People
Nothing
Talking
You've got to change with the public's taste.
Nat King Cole
Change
Public
Taste
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
Respect
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole
People
Problems
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Nat King Cole
Time
Audiences
Chance
Court
Schools
If I could read it, I could play it.
Nat King Cole
Play
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
Court
Propaganda
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole
Business
Money
Music
Purpose