When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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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I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free – flowing.
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You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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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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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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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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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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I’m never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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