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..

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

If I could read it, I could play it..

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay..

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?.

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..

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen..

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….

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them..

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark..

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work..

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 si….

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear..

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 r….

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers..

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

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..

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing..

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you..

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile.