Quotes by Noel Gallagher

About Noel Gallagher:

Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He served as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis. Raised in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began learning guitar at the age of thirteen. After a series of odd jobs in construction, he worked for local Manchester band Inspiral Carpets as a roadie and technician in 1988. Whilst touring with them, he learned that his brother Liam Gallagher had formed a band of his own, known as the Rain, which eventually took on the name Oasis. After Gallagher returned to England, he was invited by his brother to join Oasis as songwriter and guitarist.
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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'l...

Noel Gallagher

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

Noel Gallagher

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

Noel Gallagher

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.

Noel Gallagher

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

Noel Gallagher

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

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

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

Noel Gallagher

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

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 to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

Noel Gallagher

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

Noel Gallagher

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Noel Gallagher

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

Noel Gallagher

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.

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

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

Noel Gallagher

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

Noel Gallagher

Author Bio

  • NameNoel Gallagher
  • DescriptionBritish musician
  • AliasesNoel Thomas David Gallagher
  • BornMay 29, 1967
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Musician; Singer-songwriter