I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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