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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
#Body
#Breathe
#Build
#Know
#Up
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.
- Natalie Cole
#Audience
#Boring
#Father
#Know
#Respond
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?'
- Natalie Cole
#Always
#Father
#Measure
#Myself
#People
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
#Blues
#Identity
#Money
#Own
#Voice
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
#I Am
#Important
#Individual
#Me
#Strong
I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
- Natalie Cole
#Family
#Just
#Kidney
#Really
#Thankful
I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
- Natalie Cole
#Dad
#Home
#Listening
#Living Room
#Sit
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.
- Natalie Cole
#Alone
#Home
#Look
#School
#Walk
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
#Father
#Happy
#King
#Measure
#Music
I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
- Natalie Cole
#Nice Person
#Nice
#People
#Person
#Voice
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
#Back
#Hate
#Life
#Look
#My Life
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
#Famous
#Father
#Grow
#Parents
#Travel
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.
- Natalie Cole
#Active
#Always
#Faith
#First
#More
Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
- Natalie Cole
#Day
#Gift
#Life
#Say
#Thank You
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
#Dad
#He
#Love
#Rock
#Say
Aretha Franklin does not like me.
- Natalie Cole
#Aretha
#Does
#Franklin
#Like
#Me
It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
- Natalie Cole
#Beyonce
#Hard
#Shadow
My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
- Natalie Cole
#Example
#Father
#He
#Life
#Much
I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
- Natalie Cole
#Circumstances
#Extraordinary
#Person
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
#Dad
#Fun
#I Am
#Love
#Stage
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.
- Natalie Cole
#I Am
#Life
#Scars
#Victory
#Walking
I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
- Natalie Cole
#Back
#Even
#God
#Know
#Up
I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
- Natalie Cole
#Back
#Dark Side
#Dark
#Hell
#Life
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
- Natalie Cole
#Bad
#Failure
#First
#Kidney
#Percent
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
- Natalie Cole
#Faith
#God
#Me
#Power
#Spiritual
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