Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
BARRY WHITEPeople are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
More Barry White Quotes
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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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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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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 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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