I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
BARRY WHITEI try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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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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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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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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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All 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.
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I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do – all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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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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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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