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.
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 try to tell a story musically in a song.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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 never gonna quit, cause quitting’ just ain’t my schtick.
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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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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’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 woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
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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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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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