Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITEIf 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.
More Barry White Quotes
-
-
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.
BARRY WHITE -
There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
BARRY WHITE -
All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
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 WHITE -
The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
BARRY WHITE -
There’s a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I’m a street cat. I’ve belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
BARRY WHITE -
It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
BARRY WHITE -
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE -
Leave me alone. I’m fine.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE -
I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE -
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE -
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
BARRY WHITE -
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITE -
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITE -
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE -
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.
BARRY WHITE