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" By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. "
Natalie Cole
Rock
Jazz
Genres
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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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Bar
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" I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary. "
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People
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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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" I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole. "
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" 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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New
Person
" We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far. "
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Plan
Go
" I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up. "
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Back
Even
" I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any. "
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Me
Father
" I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down. "
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Love
Keep Going
" I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body. "
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Build
Starting
Up
" It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain. "
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Story
Problems
People
" I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life. "
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You
Walking
Victory
" We have to stop rewarding bad behavior. "
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Stop
Bad Behavior
Bad
" 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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Music
Singing
College
" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "
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Artists
Who
Singing
" When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example. "
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You
Honest
Reach
" I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico. "
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Young
First
Well
" I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it. "
Natalie Cole
Feel
My Life
Life
" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "
Natalie Cole
Aretha Franklin
Does
Like
" I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.' "
Natalie Cole
Used
Performer
Rock
" I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. "
Natalie Cole
Doing
Done
Really
" 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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Play
King
Happy
" It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce. "
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Shadow
Hard
Beyonce
" If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy. "
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Trendy
You
Get
" I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist. "
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Always
Faith
More
" As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better. "
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Miserable
Better
Started
" Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. "
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You
Thank You
Day
" When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic. "
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School
Home
Door
" The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning. "
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Wash
Blood
Keep
" My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita. "
Natalie Cole
Trip
Picture
Mexico