Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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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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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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.’
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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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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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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 went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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