Carl Gardner Quotes Carl Gardner Quotes. Most artists don’t know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you. Carl Gardner I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there’s too much problem with groups in the first place. Carl Gardner Being from Texas, I didn’t know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people. Carl Gardner