Quotes by Betty Carter

Quotes 1 till 4 of 4.

• 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
  - +

   0
• 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
  - +

   0
• 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
  - +

   0
• 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
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• middle-class
• confidence
• gamblers]
• supported
• beginning
• something

Similar authors

• Billie Holiday
  American jazz musician and singer-songwriter 31
• Buddy Rich
  American jazz drummer and bandleader 19
• Bobby McFerrin
  American jazz vocalist 13
• Cab Calloway
  American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor 13
• Billy Higgins
  American jazz drummer 10
• Carla Bley
  American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader 9
• Benny Goodman
  American jazz clarinetist and bandleader 8
• Billy Eckstine
  American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader 7

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations