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.
BARRY WHITEWhen a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are
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