Cardi B

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Being a feminist is being equal to what a man do

During these years I began to feel an increasing dissatisfaction with the relations of the music-loving public and the living composer. It seemed to me that we composers were in danger of working in a vacuum.

I hear beauty and elegance combined with passion and fire.

I’m a fan first. I believed Duke Ellington when he said there’s no bad music, just some of it is presented badly. As a kid, hanging around Church Street, the presentation of music was so powerful, I couldn’t help but jump for joy. I had discovered art, or truth, or whatever you want to call it; I had seen a light I’d follow forever.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

My chops were not as fast… [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it’s the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.

Words are the children of reason and therefore can’t translate the feeling of Jazz because they’re not part of it.

You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

I’ve been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.