Song Quotes by Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

I'm against people downloading music.

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

— Noel Gallagher

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

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

— Noel Gallagher

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…

— Noel Gallagher

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's…

— Noel Gallagher

Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say…

— Noel Gallagher

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

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I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn't exist that you're going to create…

— Noel Gallagher

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form…

— Noel Gallagher

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music.…

— Noel Gallagher

People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell…

— Noel Gallagher

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better…

— Noel Gallagher

Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some…

— Noel Gallagher

I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they…

— Noel Gallagher

The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You…

— Noel Gallagher

Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought,…

— Noel Gallagher

“This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me: ‘You know, the one…

— Noel Gallagher

None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none…

— Noel Gallagher

I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever…

— Noel Gallagher

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from…

— Noel Gallagher

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and…

— Noel Gallagher

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and…

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

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…

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

— Noel Gallagher

Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like…

— Noel Gallagher

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he…

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

— Noel Gallagher

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…

— Noel Gallagher

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But…

— Noel Gallagher

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If…

— Noel Gallagher