Latest Barry White Quotes from Interviews

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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

  Girl, Men, Artist

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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

  Mean, Cat, Fighting

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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

  Subjects, Picks, Ifs

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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

  Children, Kids, Years

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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

  Writing, Clothes, Car

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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

  Pimp, Mind, Clubs

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• When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

  Barry White

  War, Men, Thinking

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