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.
BARRY WHITEI woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
More Barry White Quotes
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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 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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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