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" 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. "

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" 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

" I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it. "

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

" 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.' "

" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "

Natalie Cole

Survive

Things

" Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to. "

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

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

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

" People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. "

" 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

" As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better. "

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

" 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? "

" Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 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

" 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. "

" I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. "

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

" Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. "

" My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well. "

" We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away. "

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

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

I Am

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