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.
BARRY WHITEI never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free – flowing.
More Barry White Quotes
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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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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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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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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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.
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