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.
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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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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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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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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 whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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 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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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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I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free – flowing.
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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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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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