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 WHITEBlacks own so little of the music business, it’s pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
More Barry White Quotes
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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.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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.
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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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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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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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