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Betty Carter: If you're sitting...

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If you're sitting in that audience ready to figllt 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.

Source: Books and Art, by Nat Hentoff, 14 Sep 1979.
-- Betty Carter, (May 16 1929-1998), US jazz singer; She began her career as a be-bop and scat singer by winning amateur night at the Apollo; worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles and Charlie Parker.


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