325 Quotes by Noel Gallagher

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.’

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?