Quotes by Barry White - Page 1

Leave me alone. I'm fine.
Barry White / Composer
Fine
Leave Me Alone
Leaving Me
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White / Composer
Song
Stories
Trying
Musically
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It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.
Barry White / Composer
Expression
Laying Down
Next
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
Barry White / Composer
Preacher
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White / Composer
Music
Baby
Nice
Babies
Making
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
Barry White / Composer
Freak
People
Weird
Me Weird People
Me Looking People
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White / Composer
Knowledge
Truth
Gifts
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I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.
Barry White / Composer
Inspirational
Causes
Quitting
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I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
Barry White / Composer
Quality
Sweetness
Weakness
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When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
Barry White / Composer
Men
War
Thinking
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
Barry White / Composer
Labels
Opinion
Elton
John
Label
Turned
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
Barry White / Composer
Mama
Streets
Strong
Save
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Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.
Barry White / Composer
Baby
Sex
World
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I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
Barry White / Composer
Mother
Scared
Speak
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White / Composer
Cadillacs
Jail
Said
Stealing
Tire
Again
Out
Got
Off
Tires
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Ifs
Picks
Subjects
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White / Composer
Truth
Corruption
Hypocrisy
My Own
Saws
Forced
Saw
Swallow
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
Barry White / Composer
Thank You
War
Lows
Sly
Stones
Low
Rider
Stone
Thank
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
Barry White / Composer
Barry
Sell
Launch
Record Company
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We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
Barry White / Composer
Ocean
Fire
Force
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Bible
Commit
Hands
Heart
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Brother
Strong
Workout
Twice
Brothers
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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.
Barry White / Composer
America
Boys
Time Freedom Me
Believed
Meant
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.'
Barry White / Composer
Morning
Mother
Scared
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Birthday
Smile
High School
Ready
School
Senior
Senior Year
Years
Quit
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Boring
Fool
Writing
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Art
Beautiful
Beautiful Art
Disco
Form
Made
Stars
Art Form
Name
Star
Consumer
Deserved
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Artist
Black
Littles
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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 White / Composer
Car
Clothes
Writing
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Brother
One Direction
Soul
Understand
Bond
Direction
Drove
Forces
Struggled
Mine
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Dad
Travel
Baby
Daddy
Decided
Dumped
Father
Babies
Fed
Trip
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Sister
Smile
Baby
Brother
Brothers And Sisters
Brothers
Sisters
Possibilities
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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 of wonderful, that's what you are
Barry White / Composer
Dream
Friendship
Love
Romantic
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Expected
Music Business
Business Music Way
Lasted
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Business
Careers
Knowing
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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 this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
Barry White / Composer
Kids
Cracks
Giving
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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. It is about caring for others.
Barry White / Composer
Caring
Different
People
Me People Doing
Caring Me People
Aspects
Dealing
Statement
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Girl
Baby
Strong
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Truth
Cat
Detectives
Innocent
Licking
Two
Two Weeks
Truth Me See
Attempted
Weeks
Chops
Cops
Picked
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I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.
Barry White / Composer
Clubs
Mind
Pimp
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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. 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.
Barry White / Composer
Kids
Children
Years
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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.
Barry White / Composer
Cat
Fighting
Mean
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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." Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.
Barry White / Composer
Girl
Men
Artist
White
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