One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITEThere’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.
More Barry White Quotes
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I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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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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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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 woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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