Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITEI woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
More Barry White Quotes
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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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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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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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’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 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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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