Natalie Cole Quotes

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The shock of it all is that this record is getting airplay. It's absolutely shocking to see it between Van Halen and Skid Row on the charts, totally out of its element. It should be encouraging to record companies and my contemporaries.

Natalie Cole
Love is a sometimes breathless sigh, a sometimes gasping cry, a moaning plea, a lonely ship on an angry sea, calling out for an SOS, or just a helping hand to guide her home.

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Where I'm at now helps me to look back on my life and realize that I've really had quite a colorful and rich life. I really could have turned out to be a different person. I'm so grateful for the way my life has turned out.... It almost seems miraculous that I would come to the station that I'm at now.

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

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I'm amazed at how many times I have brought myself to the brink of death in my lifetime. God was working overtime to save my butt, and I marvel that He never gave up on me.

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Doing acid or downers or uppers or whatever all that stuff was, Yellow Sunshine, Orange Sunshine... that was part of what everybody did.

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I'm like the poster child for going through a lot of shit and coming up smelling of roses.

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The definition of diva has taken a turn for the worse. Everybody's a diva now. It's become not quite so special anymore. I'd say 'fabulous' is better. Diana Ross, Audrey Hepburn, those kind of people. Josephine Baker — she was fabulous. That's what I want to be.

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I don't think that any of us really realized how much it would fragment us afterwards. It unraveled my mom and trickled down to us. And we never healed again.

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