The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITEAll 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
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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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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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I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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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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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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