Top 95 Quotes by Noel Gallagher

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.'

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.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

I'm against people downloading music.

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.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

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

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.

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.