Robin Gibb Quotes

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Robin Gibb

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 22, 1949

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Robin Gibb

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Robin Gibb

I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

Robin Gibb

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Robin Gibb

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.

Robin Gibb

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

Robin Gibb

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Robin Gibb

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.

Robin Gibb

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

Robin Gibb

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Robin Gibb

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

Robin Gibb

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

Robin Gibb

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Robin Gibb

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

Robin Gibb

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

Robin Gibb

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

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We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Robin Gibb

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

Robin Gibb

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

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