#maurice

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

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#going #i #i think #lightly #matured

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#anything #ashley #do the right thing #doing #doing the right thing

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#come #encouragement #fun #gave #good

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#everyone #feel #makes #maurice #out

I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#gay-men #homosexuality #lgbt-literature #love #maurice-novel

The triumph of plainsong, of polyphony, and of truly liturgical organ playing, in the first half century of his life, represented for Duruflé the victory of a transcendent, hieratic worldview over the secular and popular aberrations ushered in by the nineteenth century. Their demise in the 1960s meant more than the loss of a well-regarded musical tradition; it was also an assault on the worldview that gave his life meaning. ↗

— James E. Frazier

#organ-music #organ-repertoire #music

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#because #bee #bee gees #beginning #continue

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive. ↗

— Graham Norton

#bet #heart #i #maurice #monitor

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#england #homophobia #homosexuality #lgbt-literature #maurice-novel