Top 23 Quotes by Barry White

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.

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.

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 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.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

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.

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

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

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