Barry Gibb Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

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

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

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

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to live on past records.

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.

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

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

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.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

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

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

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

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

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.

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

I'm very much a family person.

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

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

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

I never really did any disco dancing.

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

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.

Maybe the way to do it is through music - keeping the music alive.

No one so far has been able to get the proper feel of a song.

But sooner or later these bubbles burst anyway, and I would like for the Bee Gees to stop before we wane.

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.

I think vocally and mentally we've managed to stay intact, somehow.

I want us to go on making records.

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.

Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.

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.

There's still this overriding thing of being commercial, which is always on your mind.

I've changed my lifestyle and diet. I don't eat red meat and I've cut out dairy products.

After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.

Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

This place will always be the spiritual home for the Cashes. My wife, Linda, and I are determined to preserve it, to honor their memory. We fell in love with it; it's an incredible honor for us. We plan to use the home to write songs because of the musical inspiration.

There were times about five years ago when I literally couldn't get out of bed. I was living in pain.

It's that feeling of being a family unit.

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.

The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo.

It was a family thing with us and that maybe is what destroyed it.

I like every part of the pop business - though I'm sick and tired of back-biters.

But I always wanted to get married and have a family even when I was 13.

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.

And now we can't really accept what we've done and where we are when we read what the magazines are saying.

All three of us were living in each other's pockets for 35 years.