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.
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’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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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Been making love for hours and, baby, we’re still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain’t going to be able to move.
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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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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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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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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