Words matter. These are the best Barry Gibb Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
Sure I’m leaving the Bee Gees. I’m going into films.
Everybody is a teenage idol.
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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.
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.
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.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
I don’t want to live on past records.
I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
I’m very much a family person.
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
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.
Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.
You are never really prepared for criticism.
I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.
I never really did any disco dancing.
I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up.
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
It’s very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice’s life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
