Barry Gibb Quotes

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.

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

I’m very much a family person.

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

I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

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

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

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.

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

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.

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.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

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

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

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

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

I never really did any disco dancing.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

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

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.

Everybody is a teenage idol.