40 Quotes by Rita Coolidge

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

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.

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.

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

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

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

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.

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

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