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Barry Gibb

(1946) Singer United States

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Barry Gibb is a singer from the United States, best known for Bee Gees.

Quick Facts About Barry Gibb

Born: September 1, 1946
Nationality: United States
Profession: Singer
Notable works: Bee Gees

About Barry Gibb

Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British and American musician. Along with his younger fraternal twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, he rose to global fame as a founder of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music. Gibb is well known for his wide vocal range, including a far-reaching high-pitched falsetto. Gibb's career has spanned over 70 years.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Knight Bachelor Commander of the Order of the British Empire Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia honorary doctor of the University of Manchester

Quotes by Barry Gibb

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

Bee gees

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

People

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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

Care

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

Dry

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

Bubbles

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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Australia

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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle…

Fancy

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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Average

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

Change

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

Ego

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

Boring

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

Band

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I don't want to live on past records.

Past

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

Bee

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Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

Albums

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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

Miss

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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Commercial

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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come…

Coming home

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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

Australia

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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Wish

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I never really did any disco dancing.

Dance

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

Seems

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

Money

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I'm very much a family person.

Family

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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

Astronomy

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