I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITETake it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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 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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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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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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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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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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