Noel Gallagher Quotes

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Noel Gallagher

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 29, 1967

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?

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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.

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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

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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.

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Making records should be fun.

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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?'

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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.

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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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There's not enough good things in the world.

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There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.

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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

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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'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

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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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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.

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I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

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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.

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The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

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American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

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America is incredibly professional and corporate.

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