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Quotes by Barry Gibb

After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.
– Barry Gibb
All my life I had wanted to go into films so when the actual situation arose I decided yes I would.
– Barry Gibb
All three of us were living in each other's pockets for 35 years.
– Barry Gibb
And now we can't really accept what we've done and where we are when we read what the magazines are saying.
– Barry Gibb
Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.
– Barry Gibb
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
– Barry Gibb
Back surgery isn't a pleasant experience. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and I think my back surgery aggravated the arthritis.
– Barry Gibb
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
– Barry Gibb
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
– Barry Gibb
But I always wanted to get married and have a family even when I was 13.
– Barry Gibb
But it's the tennis I really miss. I didn't start playing till I was about 35 and my joints are no good.
– Barry Gibb
But pop has changed anyway because the fans look on groups as individuals.
– Barry Gibb
But sooner or later these bubbles burst anyway, and I would like for the Bee Gees to stop before we wane.
– Barry Gibb
But when you are in your 50's, you want a hit record, and you want to be recognized as the person who came up with it.
– Barry Gibb
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
– Barry Gibb
Everybody is a teenage idol.
– Barry Gibb
Fortunately I can still play the guitar, but I have to strap my wrists up to give them support. It's the twisting of the wrist that causes the pain, so it's OK.
– Barry Gibb
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
– Barry Gibb
I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
– Barry Gibb
I don't want to live on past records.
– Barry Gibb
I gained a fascination for the business, for understanding it, for archaeology, for ancient civilizations.
– Barry Gibb
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
– 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
I have had an operation on my back and apparently arthritis occurs with a lot of people who have had back surgery.
– Barry Gibb
I just didn't believe in two people being a group.
– Barry Gibb
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
– Barry Gibb
I just want to get down to reality.
– Barry Gibb
I know that I am meant to be who I am, and I'm meant to have my own destiny. Whever that takes me, I'm sensible enough to accept it no matter what it is.
– Barry Gibb
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
– Barry Gibb
I like every part of the pop business - though I'm sick and tired of back-biters.
– Barry Gibb
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
– Barry Gibb
I much prefer staying at home with the wife and kids, watching TV or reading a book.
– Barry Gibb
I never really did any disco dancing.
– Barry Gibb
I suffer from extensive arthritis, so it's pretty much everywhere.
– Barry Gibb
I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped.
– Barry Gibb
I think it's really good that we have each other, you know, and we're taking a lot of strength from each other right now, you know.
– Barry Gibb
I think people are going back to it because it was an innocent era and they just want to live through it all again.
– Barry Gibb
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
– Barry Gibb
I think vocally and mentally we've managed to stay intact, somehow.
– Barry Gibb
I want us to go on making records.
– Barry Gibb
I was nine years old when I asked my brothers to play with me. That was 14 years ago. Something happened after we came to England. We lost enthusiasm.
– Barry Gibb
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
– Barry Gibb
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
– Barry Gibb
I'd have to say, without a doubt, it's a pure love of pop music and the fact that we're a family that's knit together.
– Barry Gibb
I'm a 50 year old man, jumping out of bed each morning and getting on a place is no longer feasible for me.
– Barry Gibb
I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
– Barry Gibb
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
I'm very much a family person.
– Barry Gibb
I've changed my lifestyle and diet. I don't eat red meat and I've cut out dairy products.
– Barry Gibb
I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
– Barry Gibb
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
– Barry Gibb
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
– Barry Gibb
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
– Barry Gibb
It was a family thing with us and that maybe is what destroyed it.
– Barry Gibb
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
– Barry Gibb
It's that feeling of being a family unit.
– 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
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
– Barry Gibb
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
– Barry Gibb
Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
– Barry Gibb
Maybe the way to do it is through music - keeping the music alive.
– Barry Gibb
My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.
– Barry Gibb
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
– Barry Gibb
No one so far has been able to get the proper feel of a song.
– Barry Gibb
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
– Barry Gibb
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
People just like to have a go at other artists.
– Barry Gibb
Playwrites must feel the same way I suppose when they see an actor portraying the characters they have created.
– Barry Gibb
Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.
– Barry Gibb
Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
– Barry Gibb
That's what happens at this point when you lose someone that's close to you like this is you get like a thousand visions at once.
– Barry Gibb
The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.
– Barry Gibb
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
– Barry Gibb
The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo.
– Barry Gibb
The next tour will be well spaced as I can't handle performing night after night like it might have been in 1989, when I had to drag myself out to play.
– Barry Gibb
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
– Barry Gibb
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
– Barry Gibb
The other secret is that Linda and I are still in love. And being really in love doesn't go away. It's also about being friends.
– Barry Gibb
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
Then, during the last six months, my body took a turn for the better. I feel 100 per cent better than I did five years ago.
– Barry Gibb
There was a lot of that in those days-psychedelia, the idea that if you wrote something, even if it sounded ridiculous, somebody would find its meaning.
– Barry Gibb
There were times about five years ago when I literally couldn't get out of bed. I was living in pain.
– Barry Gibb
There's still this overriding thing of being commercial, which is always on your mind.
– Barry Gibb
They know that no group lasts forever.
– Barry Gibb
They were probably the greatest years of our lives - larking around on the beach, going barefoot to school, fishing, playing on the mudflats.
– Barry Gibb
Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.
– Barry Gibb
We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.
– Barry Gibb
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
– Barry Gibb
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
– Barry Gibb
We think that at this point in our lives, the sooner we get back to what we think our gift is, is writing songs... Maurice will be a void, always in our lives and he will always be featured as the third member of the Bee Gees, no matter what we do, but one thing I will tell you is that the Bee Gees will go on.
– Barry Gibb
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
– Barry Gibb
Well, we're not really doing anything at the moment except writing songs.
– Barry Gibb
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
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
Wouldn't it be nice if we got to No.1?
– Barry Gibb
You are never really prepared for criticism.
– Barry Gibb
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
– Barry Gibb