Rita Coolidge quotes
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“I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.”
-- Rita CoolidgeSource : "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.”
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“It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.”
-- Rita CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
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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 CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : 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.”
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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 CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
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“I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.”
-- Rita CoolidgeSource : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
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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.”
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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 CoolidgeSource : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
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“I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.”
-- Rita CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : 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 CoolidgeSource : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
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