Rita Coolidge Quotes
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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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for the best.
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Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.
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I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
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The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
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The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
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I'm friendly - maybe that's taken as flirtatious. Which I don't mind!
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Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.
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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.
