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.
BARRY WHITEWhen I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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