Barry Gibb Quotes


"As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Fun, Key)

"But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Being, End)

"But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: People, Now, Sky)

"By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Money, Fortune)

"Everybody is a teenage idol."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Teenage)

"He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Man)

"I don't ever wish I was somebody else."
- Barry Gibb
"I don't want to live on past records."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Past, Want)

"I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Time, Inferiority, Ego)

"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
(Related: Family, Home)

"Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate."
- Barry Gibb
"My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Music)

"Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: 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
(Related: Home, Thought, Day, Parents)

"Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films."
- Barry Gibb
"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
(Related: Fancy, Night, Sound)

"The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto."
- Barry Gibb
"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
(Related: Life, Now, Quest, Will)

"We had to leave Australia to become international stars."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Stars)

"We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: 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
(Related: Care, Want)

"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
(Related: Work, Idea, Song)

"You are never really prepared for criticism."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Criticism)

"You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else."
- Barry Gibb
"The Bee Gees no longer exist."
- Barry Gibb
"I'm very much a family person."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Family)

"The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Music)

"I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Love, Music, Songs, Writing)

"I never really did any disco dancing."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Dancing)

"I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper."
- Barry Gibb
"I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Songs, Will)

"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Content, Nothing, Songs)

"Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: 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
"Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done."
- Barry Gibb
"I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Night)

"I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: People, Famous)

"It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Daughter, People, Majority, Man)

"It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Money, Music, Self)

"It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Being, Brothers)

"I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Change, Family, Love, Feeling)

"I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Party)

"We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Change)