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 WHITEIn 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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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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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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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 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’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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