Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITEAs a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
More Barry White Quotes
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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 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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If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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 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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