Leave me alone. I’m fine.
BARRY WHITEI never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free – flowing.
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 woke up one morning, went downstairs, said ‘Good morning’ to my mother and nearly scared both of us 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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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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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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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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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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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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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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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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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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 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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