Barry White Quotes
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'
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When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.
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In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
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I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are
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We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
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There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your mind." Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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Leave me alone. I'm fine.
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