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" My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. "
Rita Coolidge
Grandmother
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Wrote
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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. "
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Who
Jazz
Radio
" 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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Challenge
Challenges
Think
" 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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People
Feel
Head
" I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts. "
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Say
Concerts
Heart
" 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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Jazz
Did
Journey
" I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. "
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Standards
Make
Jazz
" 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
Me
Music
Road
" 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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Time
Push
Late
" 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
Beautiful
Me
Listening
" The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. "
Rita Coolidge
Doing
Women
September
" You know, I'm pretty much an open book. "
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You
Pretty
Book
" I've always loved jazz. "
Rita Coolidge
Always
Loved
Jazz
" 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
Body
Jazz
Me
" 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
Everything
Voice
Space
" I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying. "
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True
Come
Dream
" It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. "
Rita Coolidge
Sense
Jazz
Cerebral
" Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. "
Rita Coolidge
Singer
Been
Beginning
" I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. "
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Resonate
Things
How
" 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
Me
Driving
Drive
" I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written. "
Rita Coolidge
Think
Because
Written
" I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. "
Rita Coolidge
Jazz Record
First
Record