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Barry Gibb
English
Musician
About the author
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Music
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Fun
#Key
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#End
#Being
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Now
#People
#Sky
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Money
#Fortune
Everybody is a teenage idol.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Teenage
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Man
I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
I don't want to live on past records.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Want
#Past
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Time
#Ego
#Inferiority
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Family
#Home
Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Music
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Now
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Day
#Home
#Thought
#Parents
Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
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,
English
Musician
#Night
#Sound
#Fancy
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
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.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Now
#Life
#Will
#Quest
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Stars
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Question
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,
English
Musician
#Want
#Care
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,
English
Musician
#Work
#Idea
#Song
You are never really prepared for criticism.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Criticism
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
I'm very much a family person.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Family
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Music
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Love
#Writing
#Music
I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Dancing
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Will
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Nothing
#Content
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Being
#Man
#Silly
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,
English
Musician
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Night
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#People
#Famous
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#People
#Daughter
#Man
#Majority
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Money
#Self
#Music
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Being
#Brothers
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Love
#Family
#Feeling
#Change
I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Party
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
Barry Gibb,
English
Musician
#Change