As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
BARRY WHITEThere’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
More Barry White Quotes
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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.
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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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