Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
BARRY WHITEWhen I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
More Barry White Quotes
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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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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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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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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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