Top 35 Barry White Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Leave me alone. I’m fine.”

— Barry White

2. “You’re the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are.”

— Barry White

3. “We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.”

— Barry White

4. “Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.”

— Barry White

5. “There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.”

— Barry White

6. “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.”

— Barry White

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

— Barry White

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

— Barry White

9. “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

10. “I’m so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.”

— Barry White

11. “When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.”

— Barry White

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

— Barry White

13. “It’s ecstasy when you’re laying down next to me.”

— Barry White

14. “People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.”

— Barry White

15. “All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn’t read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.”

— Barry White

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

— Barry White

17. “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.”

— Barry White

18. “If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.”

— Barry White

19. “Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.”

— Barry White

20. “The whole system of society tells you what to do.”

— Barry White

21. “When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.”

— Barry White

22. “I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.”

— Barry White

23. “I try to tell a story musically in a song.”

— Barry White

24. “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.”

— Barry White

25. “When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.”

— Barry White

26. “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.”

— Barry White

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

— Barry White

28. “There’s a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I’m a street cat. I’ve belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.”

— Barry White

29. “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

30. “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.”

— Barry White

31. “One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.”

— Barry White

32. “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.”

— Barry White

33. “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

34. “Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you’re going to be a writer.”

— Barry White

35. “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

36. “In my day, we didn’t have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn’t give kids a chance.”

— Barry White

37. “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.”

— Barry White

38. “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