Top 35 Barry Gibb Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Barry Gibb

2. “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

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

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— 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 never really did any disco dancing.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

26. “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

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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.”

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— Barry Gibb

34. “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

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