Quotes by Rita Coolidge - Page 1

I've always loved jazz.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Jazz
Always Loved
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You know, I'm pretty much an open book.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Book
Knows
Open Book
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I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Firsts
Jazz
Records
Jazz Record
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I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Awareness
Heart
My Heart
Resonate
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I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Concerts
Heart
My Heart
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I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Dream
Stay Strong
Staying
Stopping
True Dream Come
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Jazz
Pedigree
Radio
Thinking
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Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Jazz
Should Have
Singers
Jazz Singer
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It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Cerebral
Jazz
Mathematical
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My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Grandmother
My Grandmother
Song
Sang
Passed
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Jazz
Records
Standards
Want
Jazz Record
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I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Cabaret
Singers
Thinking
Considered
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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.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Anxiety
Driving
Ifs
Peggy
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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.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Duration
Jazz
September
Month
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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 / Musician
Journey
Barbara
Jazz
Records
Jazz Record
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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 / Musician
Challenges
Excellence
Jazz
Player
Thinking
Studio
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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 the burglar alarm, it's too late.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Funny
Opportunity
Humor
Late
Locks
Opportunity Knocks
Too Late
Two
Alarm
Bolt
Burglar
By The Time
Chain
Push
Shut
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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 lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Friendly
Jazz
People
Radio
Records
Singers
Jazz Record
Talked
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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 front and was the key instrument.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Keys
Powerful
Subtlety
Valuable
Voice
Cluttered
Instrument
Lee
Peggy
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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 the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
People
Singers
Song
Me People Feel
Ballad
Me Song People
Float
Singer
Send
Shake
Shoulder
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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 a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Different
Information
Lifetime
Player
Wealth
Life Experience Music
Tap
Experiencing
Human Being
Richer
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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 that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Bunch
Input
Marvelous
Packaging
Sellers
Sitting
Tribute
Best Beautiful Me
Chose
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When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
Rita Coolidge / Musician
Jazz
Moved
Music Me Song
Deeply
Sang
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