Rita Coolidge Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

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

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

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

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

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

I've always loved jazz.