Oasis Noel Gallagher Quotes & Sayings

If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah ... fair enough ... gotta go home now.' — Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

Everything's gonna be fine. Stay optimistic. If there's dark clouds coming, they'll leave again. They always do. The world is round. Everything is round. The biggest invention of all time, the wheel, is round. Things pass, nothing will stay the same forever. No matter how big a pile of shite you've gotten yourself into-be it drugs, financial problems, fucked up relations-you will get over it. It will go away just like the weather. The sun is round, so is the planet we live on, as are marriage rings, and our eyes through which we see the world. — Noel Gallagher

You and I are gonna live forever — Noel Gallagher

I meet these kids in the street and they're shaking. But I' saying, 'I'm honored to met you.' It makes me cry. It's beyond special — Noel Gallagher

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. — Noel Gallagher

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

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. — 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

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 about the tunes. — Noel Gallagher

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

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that. — 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 Zorro on doughnuts. — Noel Gallagher

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

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson." — Noel Gallagher

It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody. — 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

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for? — Noel Gallagher

This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me: 'You know, the one thing that's stopping it being a classic is the ridiculous lyrics.' And I went: 'What do you mean by that?' And he said: 'Well, Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball - what's that mean?' And I went: 'I don't fucking know. But are you telling me, when you've got 60,000 people singing it, they don't know what it means? It means something different to every one of them. — Noel Gallagher