Rita Coolidge Quotes

#1. I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Merry Clayton

#2. 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

#3. She said I didn't have to perform for her. She didn't have to say that. I knew it was true. Who else do you marry but the person who pulls you off the stage?

Donald Miller

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

Rita Coolidge

#5. I've always loved jazz.

Rita Coolidge

#6. I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

Rita Coolidge

#7. The City is free of sin
The snow has given it absolution
A man who slips
A horse that falls
Oh no, the city is in a nightgown

Pierre Albert-Birot

#8. 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

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

Rita Coolidge

#10. It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

Taylor Phinney

#11. I don't get my tees at a mall, Tess. No decent tee can be bought at a fuckin' mall. A good tee is bought during an experience.

Kristen Ashley

#12. 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.

Rita Coolidge

#13. 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

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

Rita Coolidge

#15. You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

Joe Hill

#16. In her experience cowboys were notoriously unreliable, generally unfaithful, and rarely capable of settling at all.

Victoria Vane

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

Rita Coolidge

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Where is this?" I asked. It wasn't a continent I recognized. David looked up from gathering a pile of laundry. "Oh. Um, that's Middle Earth.

Rachel Hawkins

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Rita Coolidge

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

Rita Coolidge

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

Rita Coolidge

#26. in March 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered an apology for the U.S. role in the August events. She offered carefully worded regrets for the fact that the United States had "played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister" in 1953.

Abbas Milani

#27. Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

Sloane Kennedy

#28. 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.

Rita Coolidge

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

Rita Coolidge

#30. 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

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

Rita Coolidge

#32. She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day.

Wendy Knight

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

Rita Coolidge

#34. Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

A.E. Housman

#35. Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.

Sadhguru

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

Rita Coolidge

#37. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Neil Postman