It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
BARRY WHITEIt’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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 WHITEI’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITEI 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 WHITENo 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.
BARRY WHITEAs a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITEMost families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
BARRY WHITEBeen 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.
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 WHITEEveryone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
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 WHITEI’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
BARRY WHITEDisco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
BARRY WHITEThe 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 WHITEI woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
BARRY WHITE