"I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs"
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The subtext is defensive in a smart way. Gibb has spent decades with the Bee Gees’ story constantly being rewritten by public taste: heroes of harmony, disco villains, then elder statesmen. By foregrounding process over genre, he sidesteps the old argument about whether a sound is “cool” and instead asserts a value that’s harder to mock: devotion to making. The line also quietly recasts longevity as appetite, not survival. He’s not saying he kept going; he’s saying he wants to.
Context matters because “making records” is a phrase that carries the weight of eras. For someone whose career spans analog studios, tape, digital, and streaming, it’s a deliberate choice: a nod to craft, to rooms full of microphones and decisions. The insistence on love works like a rebuttal to cynicism about the music industry. If the business has a way of turning songs into inventory, Gibb’s statement insists the opposite: the inventory begins as joy.
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