Cardi B

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

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

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 pay my mama’s bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

A h** neva gets cold

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

Les is an old friend of mine. He gave me this special white Les Paul – he wound the pickups himself – for my birthday, first time I met him. I play everything from heavy metal to blues to jazz on it. He just hit it right on the head when he designed the Les Paul. I like it better than most girlfriends I’ve had. The godfather of rock ‘n’ roll, I call him. Without him, none of us would have a job.

Jazz amounts to Blues, your unique sound and the elusive genius of improvisation.

It’s important to reflect on what made Jazz so special.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Jazz has such great feeling and emotional content it really doesn’t require technical understanding.

A great thing about being a musician is you don’t stop until the day you die.

When rock came in, people didn’t know what to do. Even Sinatra, he didn’t know what to do. The music was changing. And it’s changing now.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Music should always be an adventure.

Once you become predictable, no one’s interested anymore.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can’t stop.

I’m… a rather simple person with a limited talent and perhaps a limited perspective.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave it alone.

I like to know for whom I’m writing – it makes the composition easier to do.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.