Nat King Cole

I’m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

For years the trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We starved.

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 may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

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

Never spend your money before you have it.

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.

Philanthropic efforts are among the best rewards you can have for a life well lived.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

[on money] It cannot buy you happiness. Some independence, yes.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died!

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.