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.
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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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