Quotes from Barry White

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.

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.

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.

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

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

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

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

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

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

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.

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

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