Cardi B

I’m bout this shmoney!

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

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

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

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.

I’d like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I’ve heard.

Jazz music is the real deal.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Your daddy’s rich and your ma is good lookin’ So hush little baby don’t you cry.

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

I’ve always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn’t have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

In order to complete your cycle, a musician needs to write; document what is going through your mind and where you are harmonically, theoretically, historically.

Stop before you’re done.

Surrender your whole being to a note and gravity disappears.

I don’t meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Music should always be an adventure.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.