Rita Coolidge Quotes

• You know, I’m pretty much an open book.

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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.

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  Tags in Music, Someone, Happen

• 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

• 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.

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  Tags in Back, Too

• 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.

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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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  Tags in Women, Doing, Jazz

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

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  Tags in Beginning, Singer, Jazz

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

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  Tags in Until, Songs

• 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

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

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  Tags in Sense, Seems, Jazz

• 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

• 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’ve always loved jazz.

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  Tags in Loved, Jazz

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

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  Tags in True, Come

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

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  Tags in Radio, Jazz

• 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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  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Come, Level

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

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  Tags in Heart, Concerts

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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