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Barry White

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


— Barry White


#day #elton #john #label #opinion

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


#career #expected #i #i can #i do

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


— Barry White


#got #i #jail #never #off

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.


— Barry White


#aspects #caring #dealing #different #different aspects

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


#i #just #loved #low #put

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


— Barry White


#save #streets #strong #too #tried

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


— Barry White


#brothers #families #five #four #had

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


#between #bond #brother #could #direction

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.


— Barry White


#me #off #preacher #turned

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


#came #cat #chops #cops #detectives






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Did you know about Barry White?

He appeared as himself in a couple episodes of The Simpsons and most importantly the episode "Whacking Day" in which Bart and Lisa used his famously deep bass singing voice played through loudspeakers placed on the ground to lull and attract snakes. 1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack on which White had a duet with Chris Rock called "Basketball Jones" a remake of Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jones" from 1974. The final blow came in the fall of 2002 when years of living with the afore-mentioned high blood pressure in addition to diabetes caught up with him and he was hospitalised with kidney failure.

" Along with Isaac Hayes White is considered by Allmusic. Barry White born Barry Eugene Carter ((1944-09-12)September 12 1944 – July 4 2003(2003-07-04)) was an American composer and singer-songwriter. During the course of his career in the music business White achieved 106 gold albums worldwide 41 of which also attained platinum status.

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