As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITEYou’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
More Barry White Quotes
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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’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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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