Rita Coolidge

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Rita Coolidge

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

— 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…

— Rita Coolidge

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

— Rita Coolidge

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players.…

— Rita Coolidge

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

— Rita Coolidge

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

— Rita Coolidge

I've always loved jazz.

— Rita Coolidge

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that…

— Rita Coolidge

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks…

— Rita Coolidge

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

— Rita Coolidge