Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITEThe whole system of society tells you what to do.
More Barry White Quotes
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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 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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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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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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 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 so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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