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Barry White
American
Musician
About the author
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,
American
Musician
#Love
#People
#Caring
We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Company
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,
American
Musician
#Forget
#Possibilities
#Smile
#Baby
#Music
#Brothers
#Beginning
#Sisters
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#People
#Music
#Babies
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Society
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,
American
Musician
#Thought
#Truth
#Murder
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#People
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
Barry White,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Soul
#Brother
#Direction
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Brothers
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
Barry White,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#War
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White,
American
Musician
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Song
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,
American
Musician
#School
#Music
#Birthday
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,
American
Musician
#Babies
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,
American
Musician
#Career
#Music
#Business
#Sound
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Day
#Opinion
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,
American
Musician
#Art
#Name
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Time
#Freedom
#Word
#America
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Truth
#Knowledge
#Wisdom
#Gifts
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Bible
#Heart
#Being
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White,
American
Musician
#Truth
#Corruption
#Hypocrisy