Robin Gibb Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

One morning I'd woken up about 4 a.m., feeling nauseous. The feeling lasted about an hour. It was at the time Maurice was in hospital with pains in his stomach. It was probably some indication that something was wrong, because I have never, ever had that feeling before.

Maurice walked into that place complaining of a stomachache. He had eaten breakfast and hadn't been ill the day before that. They took one x-ray, gave him a painkiller... That was 4 p.m. Thirteen hours later, he was brain dead.

I was in the car on my way to London, and Radio 2 was doing the Bee Gees story. They started playing the demos we'd made, then I heard Maurice talking. Suddenly that feeling of helplessness and non-acceptance came flooding back. I don't think you can ever come to terms with something like this. But you can learn to live with it.

He could play a few chords on a keyboard and inspire a whole song. I don't think anyone could play a few notes as magically as Maurice could. Maurice is a part of the history of the Bee Gees, so the music will always have Maurice in it. We've lost Maurice, but we'll never lose his inspiration.

I was being kept abreast of everything by phone, phoned almost by the hour, so I knew everything that was going on... I still can't come to terms with it now. It's just almost like a dream. It's like a nightmare that you wake up to every day. That's all we can say. It's just devastating. It's going to take a long time even just for it to sink in.

We're both devastated. We've actually been in shock for the last few days since Maurice was taken ill, and so this has all gone too fast for us.

The other weekend I was on the ferry to Ireland, and they were showing a documentary about the Bee Gees. They had these giant screens, and Maurice's face was everywhere. I couldn't look at them. I can't look at his face even in a photograph.

The real world was just too real, and we didn't want to be a part of normal life. We wanted to create a magical world for the three of us.

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.

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

I left on the Saturday morning. The doctors were saying there was still a chance that they'd get him back. You hope against hope that they're right.

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.

I refuse to believe my brother is dead.

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.

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

I can't accept that he's dead. I just imagine he's alive somewhere else. Pretend is the right word. Pretend is where I'm at.

I couldn't stay there. I still find Miami very hard, because from my dock I can see the hospital. I can't stand there and look at it.

I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

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

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.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

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.

If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.

I love stuff like Mozart.

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

My work means everything to me.

I love food, I love eating.

I've always been naturally thin.

It's hard for me to put on weight.

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.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I don't like rock opera with back beats.