Barry Gibb Quotes
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good 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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I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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Everybody is a teenage idol.
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Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.
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I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing
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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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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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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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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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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 don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I'm very much a family person.
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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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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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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 think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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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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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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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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