42 Quotes by Barry Gibb
- I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
- As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
- But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
- But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
- By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
- Everybody is a teenage idol.
- He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
- I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
- I don't want to live on past records.
- I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
- The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
- Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
- My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
- Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
- Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
- Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
- I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
- The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
- We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
- We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
- When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
- When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
- You are never really prepared for criticism.
- You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
- The Bee Gees no longer exist.
- I'm very much a family person.
- The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
- I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
- I never really did any disco dancing.
- I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
- I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
- I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
- Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
- I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
- Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
- I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
- I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
- It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
- It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
- I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
- I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
- We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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