Barry Gibb Quotes

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

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

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

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

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

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

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

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

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

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to live on past records.

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

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

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

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

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.

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

I never really did any disco dancing.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

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

I'm very much a family person.

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.