Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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 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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