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.
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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do – all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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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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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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.
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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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