Natalie Cole Quotes

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Natalie Cole

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 6, 1950

As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

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I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.

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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

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Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

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I was going to college to be a doctor.

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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

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I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.

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I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.

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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

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A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.

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