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.
BARRY WHITEThere’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.
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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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 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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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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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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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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 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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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