Cardi B

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.

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.

A h** neva gets cold

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

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

People who like Jazz feel the depth and soul and intelligence that the music expresses.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there’s something wrong with my act.

I try to practice with my life.

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

Actually, I think the more Ben [Taylor] sings, the less like James he sounds.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it’s about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you’ll never do it this way twice. I’ve studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

Music is what I hear and something that I live by.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.

I say, ‘Play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you’re doing – even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years’.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

I write about moments, and I don’t make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody’s come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

I’ve always had a deep love of live performance, it’s when I feel most alive.