Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
BARRY WHITEI woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn’t give kids a chance.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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