The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.”
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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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 a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
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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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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 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’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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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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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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