#ay

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. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee #bee gees #been #black #black music

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. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#brothers #conscious #crucial #death #fact

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. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#amazing #did #give #go #going

For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#brought #could #done #felt #fun

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #fastball #good

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#collins #great #had #i #phil

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#become #chinese #come #democracy #eventually

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. ↗

— Richard Strauss

#composer #first-class #first-rate #i #i am

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#always #before #down #explore #going

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#end #let us #may #method #our