One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITEWe are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
More Barry White Quotes
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In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn’t give kids a chance.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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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 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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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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.
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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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