"Mama tried to save us from the streets,……" — Barry White

"Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong."

— Barry White

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33 Quotes by Barry White

Barry White has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When…
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on…
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music…
Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen…
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do…
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had…
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…
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…

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