Noel Gallagher famous quotes

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Believe #Arrogant #World

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

#Hate #Alex #Damon

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Kids #Wife #Family Life

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Successful #Stories #Ends

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
-- Noel Gallagher

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

#Mean

The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here
-- Noel Gallagher

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Jumping #Drunk #People

We need each other / We believe in one another / And I know we're gonna uncover / What's sleeping in our souls
-- Noel Gallagher

#Believe #Sleep #Soul

Thank you for the sun / The one that shines on everyone / Who feels love.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Shining #Sun #Feels

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Song #Writing #Lennon

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 hangover.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Hangover #Blood #Drunk

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
-- Noel Gallagher

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
-- Noel Gallagher

#Jobs #Aggravation #Finding Yourself

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

#Parent #Nine #Months

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Powerful #Believe #Years

Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Thinking #Sky #Looks

America is incredibly professional and corporate.
-- Noel Gallagher

#America

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Song #Writing #Play

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Kings #Destiny #People

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Soccer #Football #Nice

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
-- Noel Gallagher

#People #Annoying #Traits

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Ears #Great Music #Beholder

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Fall #Artist #Categories

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Say Anything #Band #Singers

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Musician #Talented Musicians

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!
-- Noel Gallagher

#Cities #Band #Asking

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Children #Thinking #Long

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else...
-- Noel Gallagher

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

#Perfection #Sound #Imperfect

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Thinking #Goes On #Window

Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up
-- Noel Gallagher

#Sunshine #Rising Up #Gold

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

#Song #Sex #Writing

We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Able #Needs #Alumni

No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Play #People #The End Of The Day

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Superhero #Firsts #Albums

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Oasis #Rocks #Rock N Roll

The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Play #Bored #People

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

#Song #Pursue

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Albums

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
-- Noel Gallagher

#People #Records #States

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.'
-- Noel Gallagher

#Writing #Band #Might

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Sports #Football #Loss

There's not enough good things in the world.
-- Noel Gallagher

#World #Enough #Good Things

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
-- Noel Gallagher

#School #Police #Needs

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Genius #Equal

Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Believe #Men #Heaven

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Song #Past #Rocks

You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way
-- Noel Gallagher

#Way

I'll have my way, in my own time / I'll have my say, my star will shine.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Stars #Shining #Way

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

#Sides #Mods #Rockers

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#America #World #London

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Stars #Children #Son

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.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Dad #Men #Thinking

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Song #People #Deny

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Art #Adversity #Thinking

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Cat #Kids #House

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade
-- Noel Gallagher

#Dream #Mirrors #Razors

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?
-- Noel Gallagher

#Mean #Cat #Cnn

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Rocks #Rock N Roll #Want

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Football #College #Hypocrisy

I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Team #Nfl

I'm against people downloading music.
-- Noel Gallagher

#People #Downloading Music

We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean
-- Noel Gallagher

#Dream #Mean #Dying

You can have it all but how much do you want it?
-- Noel Gallagher

#Want