Barry Gibb Infosite

 

 

Barry Gibb Quotes

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

• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

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

• We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• I never really did any disco dancing.

• I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

• I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

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

• 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.

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

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

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

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

• You are never really prepared for criticism.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• I'm very much a family person.

• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

• Everybody is a teenage idol.

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

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

• I don't want to live on past records.

• 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.

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

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

• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

• 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.

• The Bee Gees no longer exist.

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

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

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

• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

 

Barry Gibb Discography

 Albums

1980 - Guilty (Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb)
1981 - What Kind Of Fool Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb)
1981 - Promises (Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb)
1984 - Shine Shine
1984 - Now Voyager
1988 - Hawks (Soundtrack)
2006 - The Eaten Alive Demos
2006 - The Guilty Demos
2006 - The Heartbreaker Demos
2006 - The Eyes That See in the Dark Demos

Singles

1969 - I'll Kiss Your Memory
1978 - A Day in the Life
1981 - Guilty (duet with Barbra Streisand)
1981 - What Kind of Fool (duet with Barbra Streisand)
1984 - Shine Shine
1984 - Fine Line
1988 - Childhood Days
2006 - Dr. Mann
2006 - Underworld
2007 - Drown On the River

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