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.
BARRY WHITEAll 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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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’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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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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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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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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