Robin Gibb Quotes

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

I feel it's quite important to have a band but what's more vital is to be friends with the members of the band. If there's not a bond there, you won't be able to jam. Apart from that, it's also vital to have the same vibe.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.