Barry White Quotes

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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,…
• I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
• I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free -…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I try to tell a story musically in a song.
• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
• Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
• I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
• I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
• 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…
• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives.…
• People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
• You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind…
• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
• Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
• I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'
• In 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…

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