Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Barry Gibb

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Barry Gibb.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Barry Gibb

Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music. With his younger brothers, fraternal twins Robin and Maurice Gibb, he formed a songwriting partnership beginning in 1955. He has lived in Britain, Australia, and the United States, holding dual UK–US citizenship, the latter since 2009.

I never really did any disco dancing.
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
Everybody is a teenage idol. — © Barry Gibb
Everybody is a teenage idol.
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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 don't want to live on past records.
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.
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
You are never really prepared for criticism. — © Barry Gibb
You are never really prepared for criticism.
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've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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 love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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.
I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question. — © Barry Gibb
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up — © Barry Gibb
I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up
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
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else
Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
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 Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.
I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing
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