After reading the book, I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
As the producer, I know I'm supposed to be objective, but when I heard my own voice on those songs, something went through me.
Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
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.
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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.
I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.
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.
I listened to my accountants and lawyers. I signed the contract and put the advance in the bank, but inside my heart I felt something was wrong.
I met Larry Nunes, my spiritual adviser, my godfather. Larry set up my life.
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free-flowing.
I never wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a creator, a producer, an arranger.
I play video games. I love my fish. I deal with my dogs. I stay home. I spend time with my children. I'm not a party animal.
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 started fooling around with the intro to one of the songs. Then another song, and another. I was so excited when I went into the studio.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
I'm very fortunate to have a career that has lasted as long as it has. Did I think it would last this long? No way!
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.
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
In these next years we're going to hear a human cry of agony across this country unlike anything we've ever heard before.
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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.
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
The biggest problem I had was remembering accurately. The book is about the lessons I've learned, things I went through and endured.
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.
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
They want to name that park after me, but I won't let them. I won't put my name on anything that won't improve.
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.
We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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.
Barry created an orchestra titled "Love Unlimited Orchestra," which consisted of live musicians.
In 1999, Marc Eliot wrote Barry's autobiography titled "Barry White: Love Unlimited."
Barry's ashes were scattered off the California coast by his family.
In October 1990, the USA version of "Playboy" released an article about Barry titled "Spotlight: Barry White."
In 1998, Barry appeared in a TV commercial for Arby's.
When he first met his father, Barry decided to change his name from "Carter" to "White."
In 1975, Barry was parodied by Chevy Chase in the first-season episode of "Saturday Night Live."
Barry's trademark was his deep voice.
Barry had four children with his first wife, Betty Smith.
Barry was 6' 3?" (1.92 m).
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