Robin Gibb Quotes

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

Bee, Always, Very, Identified

I love stuff like Mozart.

- Robin Gibb

Love, Like, I Love, Mozart

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

Rooms, Thousands Of People, Stadium

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

Will, Hours, Our, Factor

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

- Robin Gibb

Like, Material, Felt, Right Time

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

Bee, Fortune, Bee Gees, Karmic

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.

- Robin Gibb

Happy, Young, I Think, Fresh

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

Maybe, Telling, Plane, Despair

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

- Robin Gibb

People, Things, Makes, Grab

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

Work, Through, Been, Sit

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.

- Robin Gibb

Bee, Will, Always, Bee Gees

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

- Robin Gibb

Bee, Looking, Now, Bee Gees

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.

- Robin Gibb

Beginning, Bee, Barry, Bee Gees

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

Bee, Always, Been, Bee Gees

The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.

- Robin Gibb

Bee, Brothers, Would, Bee Gees

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.

- Robin Gibb

New, Living, Raw, Surround

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

- Robin Gibb

Guilt, Too, Pleasant, Attach

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

- Robin Gibb

Death, Think, Fact, Illness

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

- Robin Gibb

Country, English, Figures, Visit

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

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Think, I Think, Realised, Matured

I've always been naturally thin.

- Robin Gibb

Always, Been, Naturally, Thin

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

- Robin Gibb

Go, Always, Been, Thin

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.

- Robin Gibb

Business, Explain, Private, Bond

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

- Robin Gibb

Other, Been, Pockets, Entire Lives

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

- Robin Gibb

Book, Idea, Good Book, Good Time

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.

- Robin Gibb

Used, Feels, About, Wonder

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

Year, Next, Happen, Next Year

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

- Robin Gibb

Game, Like, Been, Nintendo

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.

- Robin Gibb

Death, Consciousness, More, Conscious

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

Birthday, Very, Had, Beautiful People

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.

- Robin Gibb

My Life, Other, Very, Our Lives

We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.

- Robin Gibb

Flag, Some, Kissed, Happening

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

- Robin Gibb

Comfortable, Feel, Lots, Silences

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

Play, Movie, Touched, Miss

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

- Robin Gibb

Big, Karaoke, Treated, Machine

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

Think, Through, I Think, Hardest Thing

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

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Wake Up, Activity, Idea, Utterly

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

- Robin Gibb

Think, Here, However, Organism

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

- Robin Gibb

Fruit, Like, Lot, Vegetarian

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

- Robin Gibb

Now, Everyone, Urban, Looking

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

- Robin Gibb

Rock, Opera, Like, Beats

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

- Robin Gibb

Faith, Destiny, Too, Afterlife

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

Other, Like, Became, Anyone Else

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

- Robin Gibb

Know, More, Any, Abroad

It's hard for me to put on weight.

- Robin Gibb

Me, Hard, Put, Weight

I love food, I love eating.

- Robin Gibb

Love, Food, I Love, Eating

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