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.
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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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