All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
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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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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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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There’s a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I’m a street cat. I’ve belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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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 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 woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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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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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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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’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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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