A biography for Barry Gibbhasn’t been written yet.
“I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.”
“I don't ever wish I was somebody else.”
“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.”
“I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.”
“I never really did any disco dancing.”
“The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.”
“It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.”
“But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.”
“The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.”
“We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.”
“By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.”
“We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.”
“Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.”
“I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.”
“Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.”
“It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.”
“Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.”
“The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.”
“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.”
“Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.”