Barry Gibb Quotes

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.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn`t change it for anything.

I never really did any disco dancing.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

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 will always have my songs and I don`t think I will ever dry-up.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

I`ve never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

I don`t ever wish I was somebody else.

I`m very much a family person.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

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.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I`ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man`s daughter would not understand blues.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

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.

Sure I`m leaving the Bee Gees. I`m going into films.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

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.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I don`t want to live on past records.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

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.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

As long as you`re having fun, that`s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it`s over.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

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 Bee Gees no longer exist.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.