Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITEWe are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
More Barry White Quotes
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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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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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 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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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