Challenges Quote 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 excellence. That's always a challenge.”

Rita Coolidge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

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

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