W.A.R. Gibb Quotes

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

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

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

I never really did any disco dancing.

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

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

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

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

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

I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

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

I love food, I love eating.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

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

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

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

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

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 find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.