Creativity Quote by Rita Coolidge

It is the kind of sentence that sounds soft until you notice how hard a line it draws. When Rita Coolidge says, "I choose things by how they resonate in my heart", she is staking out a decision-making philosophy that belongs to a working musician, not a self-help brochure: selection by vibration, not by résumé. "Resonate" isn’t accidental. It’s an audio word, a studio word, a body word. She’s framing taste and judgment as something you feel in the chest before you can defend it on paper.

The intent is permission-giving, but also quietly defiant. In an industry that treats artists like brands and choices like strategy (the right collaborator, the right era, the right narrative), Coolidge elevates an internal tuning fork. The subtext: I’m not optimizing. I’m listening. That matters more coming from a woman who moved through male-dominated rooms where credibility could be gatekept by producers, labels, or the mythology attached to other people’s names. "My heart" is both vulnerability and authority: the one instrument no one else gets to play.

Contextually, it lands in a post-60s/70s lineage of artists insisting on authenticity, but it avoids the macho romance of "gut instinct". Heart is not just impulse here; it’s values, memory, bruises, desire, and the long echo of songs that once saved you. The line works because it translates artistic curation into physics: if it doesn’t ring true, it’s noise, no matter how marketable it looks.