I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
BARRY WHITEI 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
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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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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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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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