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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.

Barry White

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.
BARRY WHITE

Brother Direction One Soul
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE

Always Freak Look People
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

Artist Black Littles Women
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.
BARRY WHITE

Business Careers Knowing
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITE

Music Picks Subjects Talk Writer
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

Children Kids Years
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

Birthday School Senior
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.
BARRY WHITE

Cracks Giving Kids Over Today
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

Actually Either Love Make Men Mood Music Sacred
I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
BARRY WHITE

Mother Scared Speak
Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Sex Take World
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE

Again Cadillacs Jail Steal Tire
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

Car Clothes Connection Nothing Writing
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

Caring Different People
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

Artist Better Girl Men Mind
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

Belong Cat Fighting Mean

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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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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