Barry White Quotes

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

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

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.