Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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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 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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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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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