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" 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

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Things

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Natalie Cole

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Person

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

" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Build

Starting

" 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. "

" God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with. "

" I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about. "

Natalie Cole

Sex

Parents

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

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

" 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. "

" If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive. "

" I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha. "

" 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. "

" I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico. "

" I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records. "

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Talk

Willing

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "