Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITENo 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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.
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I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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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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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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