Barry Gibb

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The Bee Gees no longer exist.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Everybody is a teenage idol.”

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

“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.”

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

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