Quotes from Maurice Gibb

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

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

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

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

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.

We expected to have a good time with Clive Anderson 'cause I've always liked him, his shows.

Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time.

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

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

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

Harmonies are nice.

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

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!

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

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

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

Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.

Robin hasn't got a big nose - but I can soon arrange that.

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

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.