Barry Gibb Quotes

#1. Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

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

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#3. I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

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

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#5. I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

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#6. I don't want to live on past records.

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#7. I'm very much a family person.

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#8. We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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

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#14. Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

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#15. 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.

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#16. The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

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

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

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#19. I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

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

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#21. The Bee Gees no longer exist.

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#22. I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

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#23. My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

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#24. We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

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

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#26. You are never really prepared for criticism.

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#27. Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.

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#28. The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

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

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#30. I never really did any disco dancing.

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

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#32. It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

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

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

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

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#36. We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

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

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

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#39. The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

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

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#41. I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

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

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

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#44. Everybody is a teenage idol.

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#45. I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

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