Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITEAs a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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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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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’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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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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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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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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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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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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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