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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.

Barry White

The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
BARRY WHITE

Artist Better Girl Men Mind
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.
BARRY WHITE

Artist Black Littles Women
I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
BARRY WHITE

Mother Scared Speak
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE

Around Preacher Turn
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITE

Boys Country Freedom Spoken
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.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Possibilities Sister Smile
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE

Mama Save Streets Strong
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.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Father Travel
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.
BARRY WHITE

Children Kids Years
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.
BARRY WHITE

Belong Cat Fighting Mean
When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
BARRY WHITE

Man Thinking War
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE

Corruption Hypocrisy Saw Truth
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.
BARRY WHITE

Clubs Mind Pimp
I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do – all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
BARRY WHITE

Business Careers Knowing
I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
BARRY WHITE

Quality Sweetness Weakness
There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Music Nice People

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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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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