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.
BARRY WHITEEveryone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
More Barry White Quotes
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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 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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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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