When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
BARRY WHITEI woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
More Barry White Quotes
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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