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.
BARRY WHITEIt’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too 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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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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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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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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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.
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