Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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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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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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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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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