Top 100 Noel Gallagher Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
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#4. It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.
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#5. Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
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#6. It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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?'
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#9. If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah ... fair enough ... gotta go home now.'
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#10. You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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#11. I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
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#15. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f ... happy.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.
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#21. We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
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#22. 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.
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#24. Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny.
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#25. There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.
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#26. Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.
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#27. I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.
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#28. I certainly don't believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it's become so powerful in the world and it's kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don't see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I'll have my way, in my own time / I'll have my say, my star will shine.
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#32. I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.
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#33. Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
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#34. These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.
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#35. Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
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#39. All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade
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#40. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove
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#42. I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
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#43. Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
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#44. Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words
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#49. When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.
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#50. It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.
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#51. I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
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#52. I do think my old fella wasn't much of a ... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
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#53. Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
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#55. Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
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#56. My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
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#57. We need each other / We believe in one another / And I know we're gonna uncover / What's sleeping in our souls
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#58. America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.
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#59. Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It's a stupid name, Kylie, I just don't get it.
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#61. I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
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#62. 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.
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#63. If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
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#65. The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.
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#66. You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
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#67. Don't lay a finger on me eyebrows or I'll sue you f ...
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#68. He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)
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#69. Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
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#70. I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
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#71. When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
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#72. When you get to a certain age you find that other people's opinions don't really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.
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#73. (on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong / Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone / So bring it on home and it won't be long / It's gettin' better man!
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#76. When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
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#77. Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
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#78. 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.
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#79. Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
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#80. There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.
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#82. I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
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#83. I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'
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#84. The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I've actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I'm just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks.
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#85. I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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."
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#88. 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.'
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#89. We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
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#90. It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
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#91. The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.
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#92. I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.
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#93. 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.
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#95. I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
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#96. I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn't exist that you're going to create on a Thursday that's going to change somebody's life, possibly, you're creating that from nothing.
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#97. Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul ... it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
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#100. Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
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