Natalie Cole Quotes

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Natalie Cole

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 6, 1950

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

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Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.

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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.

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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.

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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

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I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.

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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.

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When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

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I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.

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