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

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.

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 only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

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 make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.