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.
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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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 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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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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Men 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.
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Blacks own so little of the music business, it’s pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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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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