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.
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 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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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’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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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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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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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