Noel Gallagher quotes:

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.

I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.

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.

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'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.

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.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

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.

You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

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.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

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.

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

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

I'm against people downloading music.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

Making records should be fun.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

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 John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

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.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

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.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

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.

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

You and I are gonna live forever

I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.

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.

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?

I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.

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

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.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

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

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

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.'

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

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.

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.

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.

There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

America is incredibly professional and corporate.

As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be. It's not like a scandalous sensation or anything like that... drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

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

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.

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

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

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

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up

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.

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.

I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

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.'

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

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

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

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

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

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

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.