Quotes by Barry White

• 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.
• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
• 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.
• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
• The whole system of society tells you what to do.
• 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.
• People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
• One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
• 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.
• 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.
• I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
• I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
• I try to tell a story musically in a 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.
• 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.
• Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
• 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.
• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
• I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.