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 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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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 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 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.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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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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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.
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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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Leave me alone. I’m fine.
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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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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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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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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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