Leave me alone. I’m fine.
BARRY WHITEI went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
More Barry White Quotes
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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’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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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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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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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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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 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.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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