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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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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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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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 have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.
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I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'
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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.
