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 WHITEMama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
More Barry White Quotes
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.
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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 a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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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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I’m very happy with this new record. It’s dealing with different aspects of love-it’s me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn’t give kids a chance.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are
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