Noel Gallagher Quotes - Page 5

The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in.

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

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

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.

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.

You and I are gonna live forever...

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.

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

It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.