Rita Coolidge Quotes

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

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• I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

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  Tags in Heart, Choose, Resonated

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

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  Tags in Wanted, Jazz, Standard

• 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.

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  Tags in Come, Level

• I recorded my first jazz record in the ’70s.

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  Tags in Jazz, Record

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

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  Tags in Heart, Concerts

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

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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.

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  Tags in Feel, Anything, Over

• 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.

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  Tags in Music, Human, Different

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

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  Tags in Wanted, Journey

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

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  Tags in True, Come

• 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.

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  Tags in Friendly, Radio, Decide

• 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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  Tags in Making, Anxiety, Cool

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

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  Tags in Sense, Seems, Jazz

• I’ve always loved jazz.

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  Tags in Loved, Jazz

• 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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  Tags in Women, Doing, Jazz

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

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  Tags in Until, Songs

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

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  Tags in Beginning, Singer, Jazz

• 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.

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  Tags in Beautiful, Best

• 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.

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  Tags in Music, Someone, Happen

Rita Coolidge (23)

Birth:	1st May, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Rita Coolidge is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American vocalist. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's pop, country, adult contemporary and jazz charts.

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