Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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’m very happy with this new record. It’s dealing with different aspects of love-it’s me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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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.
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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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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