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.
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 kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
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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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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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There’s a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I’m a street cat. I’ve belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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