No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
BARRY WHITEMen 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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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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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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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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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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