Meaning of the quote

The Bee Gees were a famous band of three brothers who made music together for many years. But now, one of the brothers, Barry Gibb, is saying that the Bee Gees no longer exist as a band. This means the band has broken up and is no longer performing or making new music together.

About Barry Gibb

Barry Gibb is a legendary British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. As a member of the Bee Gees, he rose to worldwide fame and is known for his incredible vocal range and numerous hit songs. With an impressive career spanning over 60 years, Gibb has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and has been recognized with honors such as a CBE and a knighthood.

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More quotes from Barry Gibb

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

I’m very much a family person.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

Everybody is a teenage idol.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

I never really did any disco dancing.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

I don’t want to live on past records.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

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

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees