The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
BARRY WHITEThe women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
BARRY WHITEI’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITEWe 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.
BARRY WHITEElton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITEIf 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.
BARRY WHITEI went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITEI 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.
BARRY WHITEIn 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.
BARRY WHITEI woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
BARRY WHITEThe whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITEPeople are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITENo 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.
BARRY WHITEIt’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
BARRY WHITEI 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 WHITEAs a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITEYou’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
BARRY WHITE