Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITEWhen I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
More Barry White Quotes
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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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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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 a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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 never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free – flowing.
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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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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’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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