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.
BARRY WHITEThe women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
More Barry White Quotes
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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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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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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