Barry Gibb Quotes & Sayings

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

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me. — Barry Gibb

You are never really prepared for criticism. — Barry Gibb

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

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

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

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper. — Barry Gibb

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

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

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up. — Barry Gibb

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

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

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done. — Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing. — Barry Gibb

I don't want to live on past records. — Barry Gibb

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly. — 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

I love making records; I love making music; I love 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

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto. — 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 is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. — Barry Gibb

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

Everybody is a teenage idol. — Barry Gibb

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

We had to leave Australia to become international stars. — Barry Gibb

I'm very much a family person. — Barry Gibb

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

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

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end. — 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 just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything. — Barry Gibb

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

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

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing. — Barry Gibb

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

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else. — Barry Gibb

I don't ever wish I was somebody else. — Barry Gibb

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

The Bee Gees no longer exist. — Barry Gibb

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

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question. — Barry Gibb