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 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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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.
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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 a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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