We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
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 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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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’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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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