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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.

Barry White

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
BARRY WHITE

Art Beautiful Consumer Star Stars
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.
BARRY WHITE

Anybody Kid Money Refused Tougher Welfare
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.
BARRY WHITE

Actually Either Love Make Men Mood Music Sacred
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE

Corruption Hypocrisy Saw Truth
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.
BARRY WHITE

Caring Different People
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 WHITE

Cracks Giving Kids Over Today
There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Music Nice People
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITE

Boys Country Freedom Spoken
When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
BARRY WHITE

Man Thinking War
Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE

Day Labels Opinion Turn
I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
BARRY WHITE

Quality Sweetness Weakness
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
BARRY WHITE

Cat Chop Later Truth Two Week
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
BARRY WHITE

Build Fire Force Ocean
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.
BARRY WHITE

Boring Flowing Fool Writing
Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
BARRY WHITE

Baby Sex Take World
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.
BARRY WHITE

Clubs Mind Pimp

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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