Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Voice

Blues

Create

Related Quotes:

" As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Time

Plan

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

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

" I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any. "

Natalie Cole

Left

Father

" The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys. "

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

" I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "

" I was going to college to be a doctor. "

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

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Sometimes

Person

" When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' "

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

" 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. "

" There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say. "

" 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. "

" I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up. "

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