When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
BARRY WHITEIn 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.
More Barry White Quotes
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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 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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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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There’s a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I’m a street cat. I’ve belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
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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 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’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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