Nat King Cole

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.

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 people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

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

Critics don’t buy records. They get ’em free.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

I’m bout this shmoney!

We’re not motivated to make more money. We all have too much already. We want to do good work.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

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

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

A bank book makes good reading – better than some novels.

Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow.

More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

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