Rita Coolidge Quotes

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• I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
• There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out…
• Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
• If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
• I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.
• I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
• I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence.…
• I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
• I've always loved jazz.
• I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
• Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot…
• It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
• I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me…
• I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
• I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the…
• My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
• I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
• I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.
• You know, I'm pretty much an open book.
• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off…

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