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“The buzzard told the monkey "You're chokin' me
Release your hold and I'll set you free"
The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said
"Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie."”

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Nat King Cole

"Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.

“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.”

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Nat King Cole

As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings

“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.”

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Nat King Cole

British interview (1963)

“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.”

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Nat King Cole

Ebony (March 1950)

“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

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Nat King Cole

Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor. (1956) Quoted in article http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/award_recipient_detail.asp?awardRecipientId=44&ceremonyId=4 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame

“A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack…"
"Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top."”

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Nat King Cole

"Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.

“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.”

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Nat King Cole

Spoken in VOA interview http://www.library.unt.edu/resolveuid/24bc6899959ba29ac6feca22c5ad8ed9 broadcast on Pop Chronicles Show 22 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19775/m1/ <br class="br">Also on cassette 3, side B of [Gilliland, John, w:John Gilliland, Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's, 978-1-55935-147-8, 31611854, 1994, Mind's Eye, audiobook]

“Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.”

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Nat King Cole

As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings