Barry Gibb Quotes

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I love mainstream music.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

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

How can you not like Britney Spears?

Pop music will never be low brow.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play me guys like Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker and Richie Havens - a lot of very emotional players.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

I'm trying to make pop records for the middle-class, lower-middle-class - pop for the 99 percent.