Barry Gibb Quotes

It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.

I have a great relationship with everyone in my family, but I'm closer to my brothers than anyone else because they give me a lot of guidance.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.

When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.

I don't have to rope in Armaan for every song just because he is my brother. There have been times when I have replaced him with another singer. We don't have a war over it at home.

I don't particularly like working with girlbands because it's very hard to find a girlband that all get on.

We were always complete opposite characters - that's what made N-Dubz - and we publically said that, and we said it in our songs.

It's tougher to work with Amaal, as the brother equation comes in between. We fight like any other siblings and have creative differences. I work harder when I am singing for him, as he is a taskmaster.