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.
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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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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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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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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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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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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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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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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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn’t see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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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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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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