Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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