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.
BARRY WHITELeave me alone. I’m fine.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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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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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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