Barry Gibb Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Barry Gibb:
I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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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.
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I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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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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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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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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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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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I'm very much a family person.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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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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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Everybody is a teenage idol.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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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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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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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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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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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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