Barry Gibb Quotes

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

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

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

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

I'm very much a family person.

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.

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.

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

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I never really did any disco dancing.

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

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

I don't want to live on past records.

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

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

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

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

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

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

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