40 Quotes by Rita Coolidge

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.