Top 140 Noel Gallagher Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When I’m doing music and I’m on the road, I love it. But once I’m home, it’s very difficult to go back out on the road.”

— Noel Gallagher

102. “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’ll be told they’re not.”

— Noel Gallagher

103. “The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I’ve actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I’m just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks.”

— Noel Gallagher

104. “At the end, you flip over and start again because now you are not isolated. They have gone to work so that you can go home. High above, the day turns pink and you feel your feet lift above the ground as new roads open up in front of you. In this town, the jury is always rigged but the people know. They always know the truth. Believe. Belief. Beyond. Their morning glory.”

— Noel Gallagher

105. “I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, ‘You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.’”

— Noel Gallagher

106. “If I had a gun, I’d shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.”

— Noel Gallagher

107. “I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.”

— Noel Gallagher

108. “Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.”

— Noel Gallagher

109. “Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.”

— Noel Gallagher

110. “Music is a thing that changes people’s lives. It has the capacity to make young people’s lives better.”

— Noel Gallagher

111. “Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.”

— Noel Gallagher

112. “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

113. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

114. “All i would like to say is that I’m rich and you’re not.”

— Noel Gallagher

115. “I don’t fall into the category of tortured artist. But it’s not made me more or less anything.”

— Noel Gallagher

116. “It’ll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.”

— Noel Gallagher

117. “I’ve got a fleet of cars and I’ve never had a driving license, ever.”

— Noel Gallagher

118. “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

119. “I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.”

— Noel Gallagher

120. “When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”

— Noel Gallagher

121. “Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they’re not going to have any decent music to play, are they?”

— Noel Gallagher

122. “I’ve grown to love California: It’s the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you’re going to make music – that’s it.”

— Noel Gallagher

123. “You can’t put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That’s ludicrous.”

— Noel Gallagher

124. “I love the NFL. I don’t have a team per se, but I’m into it.”

— Noel Gallagher

125. “We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.”

— Noel Gallagher

126. “The thing about us is we’re honest. If we’re asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.”

— Noel Gallagher

127. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

128. “Some people live their life... they worry about the destination. They worry about where they’re going. I enjoy the trip. Wherever you’re going is where you’ll end up. Don’t worry about that. Enjoy the scenery on the way.”

— Noel Gallagher

129. “I’ve never felt like I had anything important to say.”

— Noel Gallagher

130. “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

131. “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.”

— Noel Gallagher

132. “There’s not enough good things in the world.”

— Noel Gallagher

133. “If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it’s all smoke and mirrors.”

— Noel Gallagher

134. “It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.”

— Noel Gallagher

135. “Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.”

— Noel Gallagher

136. “I’m against people downloading music.”

— Noel Gallagher

137. “Every album I’ve ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.”

— Noel Gallagher

138. “When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.”

— Noel Gallagher

139. “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.’”

— Noel Gallagher

140. “There’s enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.”

— Noel Gallagher

141. “Every song that I play I wrote by myself.”

— Noel Gallagher

142. “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