Maurice Gibb Quotes
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.
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I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.
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I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person.
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So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
