There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
BARRY WHITEThere’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
BARRY WHITEAs a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITEPeople are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITETake it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
BARRY WHITEI’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITEI 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.
BARRY WHITEOne preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITEA kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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.
BARRY WHITEIn 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.
BARRY WHITEMama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITEI 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.
BARRY WHITEI woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
BARRY WHITEEveryone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITEI 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.
BARRY WHITEWe are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
BARRY WHITE