Barry White Quotes (31 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

    I try to tell a story musically in a song.

    When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

    Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.


    I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

    The biggest problem I had was remembering accurately. The book is about the lessons I've learned, things I went through and endured.

    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.

    People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

    When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

    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.

    As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

    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.

    I started fooling around with the intro to one of the songs. Then another song, and another. I was so excited when I went into the studio.

    Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

    The whole system of society tells you what to do.

    There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

    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.

    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.

    I listened to my accountants and lawyers. I signed the contract and put the advance in the bank, but inside my heart I felt something was wrong.

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

    After reading the book, I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.

    We like it up here, ... The audience is very receptive.

    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.

    We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

    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.

    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.

    I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

    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.

    One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

    I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.


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