Barry Gibb Quotes

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.

The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

We write our own songs, play our own instruments.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

People take songs so literally.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

We don't analyze our lyrics.