Top 100 Noel Gallagher Quotes
#1. I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.
Iwan Rheon
#2. My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
Danny Boyle
#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
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#7. I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
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#8. 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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#9. When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
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#10. 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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#11. I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.
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#12. 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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#13. I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#18. 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.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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#22. I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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#24. You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!
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#26. 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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#27. 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.'
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#28. 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.
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#29. Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
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#30. Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
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#32. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
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#33. The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.
Noel Fisher
#34. 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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#35. As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
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#36. I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.
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#37. 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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#38. Oasis were the last great, traditional rock-n'-roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.
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#39. 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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#40. 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.
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#41. 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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#43. 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?
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#44. I've never felt like I had anything important to say.
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#45. We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
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#46. True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
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#47. Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
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#48. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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.
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#53. Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.
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#54. 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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#55. Thank you for the sun / The one that shines on everyone / Who feels love.
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#56. I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.
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#57. 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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#58. The thing about Manchester is ... it all comes from here
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. I'll have my way, in my own time / I'll have my say, my star will shine.
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#62. 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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#63. Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
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#64. I meet these kids in the street and they're shaking. But I' saying, 'I'm honored to met you.' It makes me cry. It's beyond special
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade
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#72. 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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#73. There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
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#75. College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
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#76. I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
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#77. 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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#78. 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.
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#79. Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#83. You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.
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#84. I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people jumping up and down, drunk to the music.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
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#91. I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.
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#92. 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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#93. Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
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#94. You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.
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#95. I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.
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#97. Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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#99. I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
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