Al Gallagher Quotes

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

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.

Thank you for the sun, The one that shines on everyone, Who feels love...

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

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.

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

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.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

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.'

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

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

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

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.

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

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

You've either got it or you haven't.

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

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.

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

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

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

I'm not looking for guidance.

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

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.

When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

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.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.