Cardi B

The ‘B’ stands for whatever, depending on the day…beautiful or bully

Being a feminist is being equal to what a man do

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it

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

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

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

The English pianist Alan Clare was once intrigued with a workman who was carrying out some remodeling inside his house. Clare was playing some recordings, and he began to notice that the workman was whistling along with whatever music he put on – Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, it didn’t seem to matter. Even if he hadn’t heard it before, he had the natural musical ability to follow a melody closely and almost automatically. Clare decided to give him a real test and dug up his recording of Art Tatum doing Tea For Two, with the ground-breaking chord changes Tatum introduced into the tune. The workman never lost a beat nor did he lay out for a bar or two to figure out what was going on. He tracked Tatum flawlessly through all his changes, and when the record ended, he spoke for the first time. He glanced at Clare and with classic English understatement said, ‘Tricky f**ker, ain’t he?’

I discovered very early that it wasn’t quite enough for me to imitate people.

[In 1972] At the moment, we’re getting the same thrill from seeing the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Jo Jo Gunne, and Judee Sill happen… It’s as hard to do it with Jackson Browne as it was to do it with Joni five years ago.

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

You never master the instrument. You always just strive to get better.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet, put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes.’

I could write six songs in one day with everything that’s going on.

The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.

It’s like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, ‘Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.