As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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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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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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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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are
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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.
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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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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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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