Robin Gibb Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I love food, I love eating.

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

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.

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

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.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

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.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

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.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

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

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

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

I love stuff like Mozart.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

My work means everything to me.

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.

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

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

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.

It's hard for me to put on weight.

I've always been naturally thin.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.