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.
BARRY WHITEElton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
More Barry White Quotes
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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 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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
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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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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