You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
More Quotes from Betty Carter:
After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.Betty Carter
If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
Betty Carter
If it wasn't for pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers there wouldn't be no jazz They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.
Betty Carter
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
Betty Carter
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