Barry Gibb Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#6. You are never really prepared for criticism.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

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#10. I never really did any disco dancing.

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

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

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#14. The Bee Gees no longer exist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#21. Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

Maurice Gibb

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

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

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

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#25. Everybody is a teenage idol.

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

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

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

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

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#30. No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

Maurice Gibb

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

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

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

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#34. I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Maurice Gibb

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

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#36. Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

Maurice Gibb

#37. In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.

Robin Gibb

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

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

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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#51. When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

Maurice Gibb