Noel Gallagher Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
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Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
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Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.
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I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
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Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
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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.'
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America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.
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I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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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.
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We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
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Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
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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.
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I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
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I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
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I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?
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Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.