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 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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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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’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’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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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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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 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.
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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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