Barry Gibb Quotes
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
-
I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
-
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
-
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
-
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
-
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
-
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
-
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
-
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
-
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
-
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
-
I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
-
I can't touch Simon anymore.
-
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
-
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
-
It feels fantastic. You have no idea the work we've put into this season. I'm still in shock right now that we won. It's just mind-blowing.
-
It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
-
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
-
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
