Rita Coolidge

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

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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 #cool #drive #driving #got

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

— Rita Coolidge

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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

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

— Rita Coolidge

#passed #sang #she #songs #until

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

— Rita Coolidge

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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. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

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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

#cluttered #everything #front #her #instrument

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

— Rita Coolidge

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