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Creativity Quote by Maurice Gibb

"Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time"

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"Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time" is the kind of line that sounds like a shrug until you hear the machinery behind it. Maurice Gibb isn’t just bragging about fun; he’s building a public alibi. The Bee Gees spent decades being watched, imitated, mocked, revived, and re-mocked. In that glare, pleasure becomes strategy: if the world insists on turning you into a cartoon (hair, harmonies, falsetto, disco), you lean into the one thing that can’t be audited from the outside - vibe.

The phrasing does two clever things. First, it draws a border around the real audience: "everybody who knows us". That’s not the crowd, not the critics, not the era’s fickle gatekeepers. It’s the inner circle, the people whose testimony counts. Second, it repeats "knows" like a drumbeat, quietly insisting on authenticity. Fun here isn’t a press-release adjective; it’s a credential.

There’s also a soft defensive note. "Always" is an overstatement on purpose, a bright coat of paint over a career that included creative friction, tabloid scrutiny, and the unspoken heaviness that follows any long-running family enterprise. When a band is literally brothers, "a good time" can mean survival: a way to frame work, fame, and conflict as something lighter, manageable, communal.

In pop culture terms, it’s a reminder that charisma isn’t just talent on stage. It’s the story you tell about what happens offstage - a refusal to let the narrative harden into tragedy or cynicism.

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Maurice Gibb (December 22, 1949 - January 12, 2003) was a Musician from Australia.

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