Rita Coolidge Quotes

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Heart, Awareness, My Heart

  "Coolidge Makes the Album of Her Dreams". JazzReview Interview, www.jazzreview.com. August 1, 2005.

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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

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Dream, Stay Strong, Stopping

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Records, Want, Jazz

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Jazz, Mathematical, Cerebral

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Heart, My Heart, Concerts

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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

  Player, Thinking, Challenges

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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

  Song, People, Singers

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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

  Player, Different, Information

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Thinking, Radio, Jazz

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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

  Thinking, Singers, Cabaret

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Song, Grandmother, My Grandmother

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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

  Anxiety, Driving, Ifs

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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

  People, Friendly, Records

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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

  Powerful, Keys, Voice

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I've always loved jazz.

  Rita Coolidge

  Jazz

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Records, Firsts, Jazz

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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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

  Journey, Records, Jazz

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Should Have, Singers, Jazz

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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

  Rita Coolidge

  Book, Open Book, Knows

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