Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "
Natalie Cole
Back
Life
Hell
Related Quotes:
" It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff. "
Natalie Cole
Best
Life
Worst
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Long
People
Time
" I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process. "
Natalie Cole
You
Process
Recovery
" The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning. "
Natalie Cole
Wash
Blood
Keep
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Play
King
Happy
" I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. "
Natalie Cole
Person
Circumstances
Extraordinary
" What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me. "
Natalie Cole
Individual
Strong
I Am
" I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular. "
Natalie Cole
People
Life
Men
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Think
People
Attention
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
See
You
Race
" I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band. "
Natalie Cole
I Am
Stage
Band
" 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
" My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life. "
Natalie Cole
Much
Led
He
" When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are. "
Natalie Cole
Living
Where
You
" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "
Natalie Cole
Aretha Franklin
Does
Like
" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "
Natalie Cole
Survive
Go
Things
" Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept. "
Natalie Cole
Dark
Losing
Accept
" Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. "
Natalie Cole
You
Thank You
Day
" You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today. "
Natalie Cole
Me
I Am
You
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Work
Music
More
" I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit. "
Natalie Cole
Spirit
Feel
People
" I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material. "
Natalie Cole
Father
Singing
Student
" There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet. "
Natalie Cole
You
Parents
Famous
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Feel
People
Time
" I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you. "
Natalie Cole
You
Kind
Know
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Daughter
Lot
Me
" 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.' "
Natalie Cole
Rock
My Life
Look
" 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. "
Natalie Cole
Group
Great
Destiny
" Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes. "
Natalie Cole
Clothes
Even
Had
" When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? "
Natalie Cole
Human
Hope
Faith