Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Noel Gallagher
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
I've never felt like I had anything important to say.
I'm against people downloading music.
There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.
I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'
I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.
American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.
If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.
Making records should be fun.
It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.
There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.
I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
America is incredibly professional and corporate.
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.
People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
I don't live to work; I work to live.
You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!
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