Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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’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.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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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 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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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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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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