Barry White Quotes


"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell."
- Barry White
(Related: Company)

"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Music, Baby, Beginning, Brothers, Forget, Possibilities, Sisters, Smile)

"There's people making babies to my music. That's nice."
- Barry White
(Related: Music, People, Babies)

"The whole system of society tells you what to do."
- Barry White
(Related: Society)

"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Truth, Thought, Murder)

"People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird."
- Barry White
(Related: People)

"One preacher turned me on, another turned me off."
- Barry White
"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Brother, Soul, Direction)

"Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong."
- Barry White
(Related: Brothers)

"Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong."
- Barry White
"I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them."
- Barry White
(Related: War)

"I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again."
- Barry White
"I try to tell a story musically in a song."
- Barry White
(Related: Song)

"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Music, Birthday, School)

"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Babies)

"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Business, Music, Career, Sound)

"Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day."
- Barry White
(Related: Day, Opinion)

"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."
- Barry White
(Related: Art, Name)

"As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken."
- Barry White
(Related: Time, America, Freedom, Word)

"I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth."
- Barry White
(Related: Wisdom, Truth, Knowledge, Gifts)

"When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand."
- Barry White
(Related: Heart, Bible, Being)

"When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy."
- Barry White
(Related: Truth, Corruption, Hypocrisy)