W.A.R. Gibb Quotes
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.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
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.
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.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
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.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
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
Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.
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.
It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.
But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
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.
