#nat king cole

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#beautiful #cole #day #emulate #favorite

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. ↗

— Mose Allison

#armstrong #been #classic #cole #influences

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it? ↗

— Richard Dawson

#came #canceled #cheek #clark #cole

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #christmas #cole #gotta #holidays

Nat King Cole was a really big influence. ↗

— Bryan White

#big influence #cole #influence #king #nat

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice. ↗

— Diahann Carroll

#always #cole #considered #friend #had