Noel Gallagher quotes

Born
29 May 1967, Longsight, Manchester, England.

Occupation
Singer, songwriter, guitarist.

Noel Gallagher is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist.

You don’t have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
– Noel Gallagher

There’s not enough good things in the world.
– Noel Gallagher

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.’
– Noel Gallagher

I’m against people downloading music.
– Noel Gallagher

I’m a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
– Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

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

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

I’m not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
– Noel Gallagher

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

It’s a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
– Noel Gallagher

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

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
– Noel Gallagher

I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it.
– Noel Gallagher

When you’re in a band and there’s five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
– Noel Gallagher

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

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

You can’t afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
– Noel Gallagher

There’s no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.
– Noel Gallagher

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.
– Noel Gallagher

I don’t live to work; I work to live.
– Noel Gallagher

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

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.’
– Noel Gallagher

I like Chris Martin. I think he’s a really great songwriter.
– Noel Gallagher

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.
– Noel Gallagher

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He’s mad as custard.
– Noel Gallagher

We shouldn’t need riot police at schools.
– Noel Gallagher

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

The charts are only relevant when you’re top of them!
– Noel Gallagher

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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.
– Noel Gallagher

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

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.
– Noel Gallagher

America is incredibly professional and corporate.
– 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 of hope in it, I think.
– Noel Gallagher

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