Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.
BARRY WHITEMost families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
More Barry White Quotes
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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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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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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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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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