Noel Gallagher Quotes

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There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

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?

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?'

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.

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 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.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

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.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

I'm against people downloading music.

I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.

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 don't live to work; I work to live.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

There's not enough good things in the world.

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.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.