Barry Gibb Quotes

“Everybody is a teenage idol.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— 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

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

— 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

“We had to leave Australia to become international stars.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

“We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.”

— 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

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

“I never really did any disco dancing.”

— Barry Gibb

“I don't ever wish I was somebody else.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

“I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— 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

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

— Barry Gibb

“I don't want to live on past records.”

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

— 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'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.”

— Barry Gibb

“I'm very much a family person.”

— Barry Gibb

“I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.”

— 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

“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

“My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.”

— 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

“The Bee Gees no longer exist.”

— Barry Gibb

“The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.”

— 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

“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