I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
BARRY WHITEEveryone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
More Barry White Quotes
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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
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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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Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
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If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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