Jazz Singer Quotes by Rita Coolidge

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of…

— Rita Coolidge

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

— Rita Coolidge

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

— Rita Coolidge

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

— Rita Coolidge

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off…

— Rita Coolidge

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

— Rita Coolidge

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

— Rita Coolidge

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

— Rita Coolidge

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

— Rita Coolidge

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs…

— Rita Coolidge

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A…

— Rita Coolidge

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

— Rita Coolidge

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

— Rita Coolidge

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

— Rita Coolidge

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was…

— Rita Coolidge