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 WHITEI 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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Blacks own so little of the music business, it’s pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
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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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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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If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.
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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’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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