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.
BARRY WHITEBlacks own so little of the music business, it’s pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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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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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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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