Robin Gibb Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
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I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.
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Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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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.
