Top 100 Quotes About Gibb
#1. I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.
Graham Norton
#2. I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
Robin Gibb
#3. I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Maurice Gibb
#4. Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry Gibb
#5. God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.
Jocelyn Gibb
#6. I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb
#7. I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Barry Gibb
#8. I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
Andy Gibb
#9. When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play ... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
Robin Gibb
#10. I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
Bobbi Gibb
#11. Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
Maurice Gibb
#12. 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
#13. I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry Gibb
#14. But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
Camilla Gibb
#15. Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
Camilla Gibb
#16. I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.
Robin Gibb
#17. I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
Barry Gibb
#18. If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
Robin Gibb
#19. With Maurice suddenly going, I realised ... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.
Robin Gibb
#20. I don't want to live on past records.
Barry Gibb
#21. We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.
Maurice Gibb
#22. Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.
Robin Gibb
#24. 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
#25. I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
Andy Gibb
#26. Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.
Maurice Gibb
#27. I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
Robin Gibb
#29. The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
Camilla Gibb
#30. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.
Jocelyn Gibb
#31. How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
Robin Gibb
#32. I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
Andy Gibb
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.
Maurice Gibb
#37. It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.
Robin Gibb
#38. I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
Andy Gibb
#39. We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
Barry Gibb
#40. 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.
Barry Gibb
#41. Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
Barry Gibb
#42. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
Andy Gibb
#43. The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
Robin Gibb
#44. If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence?
Jocelyn Gibb
#45. What a pity it is that by such superfluous unrealities he should furnish the public with excuses to evade the overwhelming realism of his moral theology!
Jocelyn Gibb
#46. 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.
Barry Gibb
#47. I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.
Robin Gibb
#48. Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.
Jocelyn Gibb
#49. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.
Camilla Gibb
#50. 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.
Barry Gibb
#51. I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.
Maurice Gibb
#52. His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.
Jocelyn Gibb
#53. His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea.
Jocelyn Gibb
#54. I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.
Robin Gibb
#55. The gift of phrase was instantaneous to him in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.
Jocelyn Gibb
#56. The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Barry Gibb
#57. Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb
#58. 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.
Barry Gibb
#59. The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
Robin Gibb
#60. I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.
Maurice Gibb
#61. Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.
Jocelyn Gibb
#62. Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
Andy Gibb
#63. Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?
Jocelyn Gibb
#64. God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.
Jocelyn Gibb
#65. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:
Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.
Jocelyn Gibb
#66. The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
Robin Gibb
#67. I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.
Andy Gibb
#68. His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination
Jocelyn Gibb
#69. The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
Barry Gibb
#70. Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
Maurice Gibb
#71. I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt ... a few girls have passed out, that's all.
Andy Gibb
#72. Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
Andy Gibb
#73. We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.
Robin Gibb
#74. [Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.
Jocelyn Gibb
#75. I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.
Robin Gibb
#76. I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.
Robin Gibb
#77. I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.
Robin Gibb
#78. I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Barry Gibb
#79. What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.
Jocelyn Gibb
#80. I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.
Maurice Gibb
#81. The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.
Maurice Gibb
#82. Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
Barry Gibb
#83. I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur'an, something troubled in me became still.
Camilla Gibb
#84. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.
Jocelyn Gibb
#85. I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
Barry Gibb
#86. If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
Robin Gibb
#87. You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was ... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world ... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Robin Gibb
#88. Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
Robin Gibb
#89. By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Barry Gibb
#90. 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
#91. As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
Maurice Gibb
#92. FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
Maurice Gibb
#94. He wrote the future onto my face with his lips.
Camilla Gibb
#95. When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.
Jocelyn Gibb
#96. No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe.
Jocelyn Gibb
#97. We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.
Robin Gibb
#98. If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.
Camilla Gibb
#99. It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
Maurice Gibb
#100. It's hard for me to put on weight.
Robin Gibb
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