Top 35 Barry Gibb Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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

— Barry Gibb

3. “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

6. “Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.”

— Barry Gibb

7. “The Bee Gees no longer exist.”

— Barry Gibb

8. “I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.”

— Barry Gibb

9. “The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.”

— Barry Gibb

10. “I’m very much a family person.”

— Barry Gibb

11. “Everybody is a teenage idol.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

17. “Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

21. “It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

23. “You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

25. “I never really did any disco dancing.”

— Barry Gibb

26. “You are never really prepared for criticism.”

— Barry Gibb

27. “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.”

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28. “I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.”

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

— Barry Gibb

30. “We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.”

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

— Barry Gibb

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

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33. “Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

35. “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