Barry Gibb Quotes

I don't want to live on past records.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

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

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

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.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

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

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

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

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

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

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

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

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

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

I never really did any disco dancing.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm very much a family person.

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

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

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

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

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

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

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

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

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

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