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.
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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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 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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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’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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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