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Rita Coolidge

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

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Rita Coolidge
"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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"I choose things by how they resonate in my heart."
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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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"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."
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"I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts."
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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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"I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s."
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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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"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."
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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."
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