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.
BARRY WHITEI went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
More Barry White Quotes
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn’t see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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I 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.
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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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