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 kee…

- Betty Carter

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

- Betty Carter

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

- 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…

- 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 h…

- Betty Carter