If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.
Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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.
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.
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.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!
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.
Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
If I could read it, I could play it.
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.
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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