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Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.

Barry White

There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Music Nice People
Leave me alone. I’m fine.
BARRY WHITE

Alone Fine Leave
Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE

Day Labels Opinion Turn
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE

Always Freak Look People
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.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Father Travel
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.
BARRY WHITE

Birthday School Senior
When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
BARRY WHITE

Man Thinking War
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 WHITE

Stones Thank Wanted War You
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.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Possibilities Sister Smile
I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE

Gift Knowledge Wisdom Truth
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITE

Music Picks Subjects Talk Writer
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.
BARRY WHITE

Children Kids Years
I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
BARRY WHITE

Death Morning Mother Scared
Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Sex Take World
Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Girl Hour Night Strong
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.
BARRY WHITE

Anybody Kid Money Refused Tougher Welfare
The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
BARRY WHITE

Artist Better Girl Men Mind
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.
BARRY WHITE

Artist Black Littles Women
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.
BARRY WHITE

Brother Direction One Soul
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.
BARRY WHITE

Cat Chop Later Truth Two Week
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 WHITE

Car Clothes Connection Nothing Writing
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE

Again Cadillacs Jail Steal Tire
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.
BARRY WHITE

Boring Flowing Fool Writing
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.
BARRY WHITE

Business Careers Knowing
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE

Song Stories Trying
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 WHITE

Clubs Mind Pimp
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.
BARRY WHITE

Caring Different People

Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.

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Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.

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