"I didn't say 'Hey, sing falsetto, I'd like to invent this sound for you, but there was a melody in one of the songs — it might have been 'Jive Talkin' — and I said 'Can you take it up an octave, please?' And Barry said 'If I take it up an octave and shout like an opera singer, I'll sound like a fool. Let me sing it in a soft voice.' So he sang it in that voice and the brothers and everyone were saying 'That's great, that's great, keep that.' So that's how it came about. But I didn't say, I want you to sing falsetto here. I just said 'Kick it up an octave.'" A proposito del suo lavoro coi Bee Gees.

(Arif Mardin, produttore discografico; Istanbul, 15 marzo 1932 – New York, 25 giugno 2006)