One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
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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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Blacks own so little of the music business, it’s pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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 a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
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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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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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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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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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