Noel Gallagher Quotes

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

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.

I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

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.

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.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

There's not enough good things in the world.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

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.

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.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

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

Don't lay a finger on me eyebrows or I'll sue you f...

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

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.

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.

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?'

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

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

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.

I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?

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.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.

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.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

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.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

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 getting better man!

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

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

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.

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.

They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

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

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)

(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.