One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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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.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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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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’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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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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