Barry White Quotes

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.

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

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

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.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

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

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

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

Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.