Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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 saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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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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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
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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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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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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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A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.
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