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.
BARRY WHITENo 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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 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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I’m very happy with this new record. It’s dealing with different aspects of love-it’s me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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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’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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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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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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