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.
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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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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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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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’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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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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The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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