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.
BARRY WHITEI’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 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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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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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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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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 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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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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