I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITEIf 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 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 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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We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
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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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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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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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I’m very happy with this new record. It’s dealing with different aspects of love-it’s me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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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