Top 140 Noel Gallagher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t live to work; I work to live.”

— Noel Gallagher

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2. “You and I are gonna live forever.”

— Noel Gallagher

3. “You can have it all but how much do you want it?”

— Noel Gallagher

4. “Some might say they don’t believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.”

— Noel Gallagher

5. “I’m equal part genius, equal part buffoon.”

— Noel Gallagher

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6. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

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7. “I wasn’t put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.”

— Noel Gallagher

8. “You’re asking if I’m happy? I’ve got 87 million in the bank, I’ve got a Rolls Royce, I’ve got 3 stalkers, I’m about to go on the board at Manchester City, I’m part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I’m not! I want more!”

— Noel Gallagher

9. “Those who don’t say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.”

— Noel Gallagher

10. “You can’t afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.”

— Noel Gallagher

11. “I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it.”

— Noel Gallagher

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12. “Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there’s nothing worth working for?”

— Noel Gallagher

13. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

14. “Just because you sell lots of records it doesn’t mean to say you’re any good. Look at Phil Collins.”

— Noel Gallagher

15. “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

16. “Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.”

— Noel Gallagher

17. “I have to be myself, I can’t be no one else...”

— Noel Gallagher

18. “I hate Mourinho. He’s a fool.”

— Noel Gallagher

19. “We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best band in the world.”

— Noel Gallagher

20. “I don’t much like ‘Wonderwall,’ but the effect that song has on people, I can’t deny it.”

— Noel Gallagher

21. “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

22. “I don’t have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I’m learning how to do it.”

— Noel Gallagher

23. “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

24. “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my Mum. I know I’ve got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.”

— Noel Gallagher

25. “I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.”

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Noel Gallagher

27. “I’m a happy-go-lucky character. I’m not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.”

— Noel Gallagher

28. “There’s nothing good on the news. You’re not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?”

— Noel Gallagher

29. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

30. “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

31. “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

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

— Noel Gallagher

33. “Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they’re all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.”

— Noel Gallagher

34. “If I were in the Beatles, I’d be a good George Harrison.”

— Noel Gallagher

35. “Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she’s amazing.”

— Noel Gallagher

36. “My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That’s how kids become brats, if you’re there staring at them all the time going, ‘Are you alright?’”

— Noel Gallagher

37. “I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn’t exist that you’re going to create on a Thursday that’s going to change somebody’s life, possibly, you’re creating that from nothing.”

— Noel Gallagher

38. “Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don’t believe you’ve arrived until you get a stalker.”

— Noel Gallagher

39. “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

40. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

41. “I like Chris Martin. I think he’s a really great songwriter.”

— Noel Gallagher

42. “For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That’s my opinion.”

— Noel Gallagher

43. “It’s a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.”

— Noel Gallagher

44. “I’m a massive fan of the Stones, and I don’t think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn’t wear leggings.”

— Noel Gallagher

45. “There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.”

— Noel Gallagher

46. “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

47. “Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I’m concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don’t know why. She doesn’t even have a good name. It’s a stupid name, Kylie, I just don’t get it.”

— Noel Gallagher

48. “You don’t have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.”

— Noel Gallagher

49. “Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don’t need to say anything else.”

— Noel Gallagher

50. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher