Barry White Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

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

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

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

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

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

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

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.