Cardi B

Being a feminist is being equal to what a man do

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

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

I only f**k with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don’t want any ‘friends’ who fall silent during my success.

I don’t care about anyone not liking me, you b**thes barely like yourselves.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

I don’t worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

Jazz? has no boundaries.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

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.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

It became a kind of a game, to remember the things that had happened five minutes ago. I would start making notes about the things I was doing, on an instrument that was foreign to me, the guitar, so it was just a fun way of doing cognitive therapy. I was none the wiser to it until I began to improve and my ability to speak began to come back.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it’s beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

I used my mother’s radio as a PA system. I’d take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That’s why I wanted the clarinet.