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.Collection: Trust
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.Collection: Romantic
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.Collection: Inspirational
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.Collection: Best
I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.Collection: Famous
I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.Collection: Cool
It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Positive
I don't live to work; I work to live.Collection: Work
I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.Collection: Money
Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Cool
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.
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.'
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
America is incredibly professional and corporate.
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.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
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 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.
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.'
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.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.
You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.
If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
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.'
You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.
There's not enough good things in the world.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
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.
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
I've never felt like I had anything important to say.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.