I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do – all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
BARRY WHITETake it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
More Barry White Quotes
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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 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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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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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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 saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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 people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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