All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
BARRY WHITEI kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
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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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.
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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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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’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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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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