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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.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I met Larry Nunes, my spiritual adviser, my godfather. Larry set up my life.
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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.
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I never wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a creator, a producer, an arranger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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!
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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.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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In these next years we're going to hear a human cry of agony across this country unlike anything we've ever heard before.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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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.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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The biggest problem I had was remembering accurately. The book is about the lessons I've learned, things I went through and endured.
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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.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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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.
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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.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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