It's like anything. If you're an actor, or a painter or a writer, you've always got to entertain yourself first, before you can even consider other people. If it doesn't excite you, it's hardly gonna excite anybody else.
We are too dangerous for them, we speak too much.
I love playing music. It's a gift given to me by whoever dishes out these talents to people... and as long as I believe I have something valid to put out as a piece of music then I'll keep doing it. As soon as I feel it's not, I'll stop and do something else like open a chippy or work in a butcher's shopa.
Sure I love Liam, but not as much as I love Pot Noodles.
Someone told me 'Supersonic' was about teenage prostitution. Shit. It's about a nine-stone Rottweiler called Elsa who was in the studio where we were recording.
Live Forever is sort of about me mum, regardless of what you might have heard from anybody else. It's about me mother.
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 mam not to be a liar.
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
To jest najważniejsza rockowa płyta od czasu nagrania Nevermind (o Definitely Maybe).
No-one writes about getting high anymore. They're writing about their grandparents.
When we played 'Roll With It' at Wembley - and I hate that song, I can't stand it, right? - you see 76,000 people leaving the floor. . . What the fuck is that?
Let me try to do the interview... So tell me, what's life like being a transvestite?
I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, Do you watch Brookside?
Interviewer: I have with me one of the stars of Oasis... Noel: What do you mean one of the stars?
Nothing bothers me more than when groups like Pearl Jam and Nirvana whine and moan and complain about life and being famous. Let me tell you, being famous is great! The feeling when someone asks you for an autograph, unbelieveable!
This guy came up to me from some band and he said that 'Man, I'd hate to be you right now, no privacy at all' and I was thinking, 'Sure thing man, I have a fucking Rolls Royce, a million dollars in the bank, a fucking mansion and my own jet and you think you'd feel sorry for me? What are you? I'd hate to be you, broke as all hell living in the dole.
Liam: I need to be myself Noel: I wanna be a Spaceman.
Noel: Me and our kid, we like, love each other by now. Liam: I fuckin' hate him, he's a prick... Noel: Oh we do, honest to God Liam: He's a prick Noel: And all this bullshit about fighting is all a load of lies Liam: ...he's a twat Noel: Me an' him... Liam: ...and he's a bald twat Noel: Love each other! We do honestly.
Me and Bonehead would just walk into a hotel room and empty it out the window.
We're a rock band, a pop band, a punk band, but then we're something else altogether. If you go back through 30 years of music, we're the best bits, your favourite bits, all encompassed in one band. We're Oasis.
I have 87 million pounds in the bank, a Rolls Royce, 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City and I'm in the greatest band in the world...Am I happy with that? NO I'M NOT, I WANT MORE!!!!!!.
George Harrison doesn't know Liam cos he's never met him. And if you haven't met Liam and just read about him in the papers, I can understand why anyone wouldn't like him. But unless you get to know him, you shouldn't be making statements like that. But we all love you, George. We think you're top!
Liam's the King of the Lads. Not me. I'm the King of Kings!
We're rich..We're famous...Our album has beaten The Beatles' record...I am considered as one of the best song writer in the world...and do you think I am satisfiied with that...NO..NOT AT ALL..I WANT MORE!!!!" (po Brit Awards, '95 rok)
Spiderman used websites dinnhe?
Manchester bored me because it's too small. You can't fart without everybody knowing about it.
Noel: This one's called Hello. Liam: No it's called Howareya!
Rain? (nazwa grupy nim przekwalifikowano na Oasis) They were rubbish! Terrible! Absolutely dreadful
I am the songwriter, the brains behind the band, the quiet calm one. Liam's the nutcase, a stubborn little....
One of my goals is to stop wearing women's clothes. No, I didn't mean that.
You don't deserve us. Thank you. Fu*k you. (po koncercie).
If it wasn't for our kid (Liam) I don't know what I would have done [mimes arm around shoulder, quiet words] "It's alright, you just said something daft" This is my little brother, who I look after, putting his arm around me, saying "It'll be alright, man.
You can put your life in the hands, of this rock n roll band cos we'll never throw it all away (Knewborth, '96, w trakcie Don't Look Back In Anger)
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 songs.
We just gave Paul (Guigsy) a big hug and told him to go to bed, take a holiday, whatever. He needs to get healthy and eat more vegetables
We're not the psychopaths we're made out to be but you don't take shit do you?
I don't mind this wild image because it's all true - the only person it bothers is me mam. She hits me round the head when she reads about me going to hospital and stuff, but I tell her, 'I didn't collapse, I just fell down and couldn't get up again for a while
We like annoying people, It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
No, people were laughing, yeah, going what are you doing? Well, I want to be a songwriter. A songwriter? Why can't you be a drug dealer like the rest of us?
It's like a game of baseball. The press hold the ball, but you hold the bat. So they toss you the ball now and again, and it's up to you to knock it for a home run and run around the stadium.
I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
I put drug references in Oasis songs because I take them. I write about what I know.
We don't like anyone. Oh, I listen to this new band just brought a new single out called 'Free As a Bird.' You might have heard of them, the Beatles. I listen to them quite a lot.
Drummers are really smelly, useless, horrible, talentless losers, man. I mean, fancy having a job where you bang things all day. Orangutans do that, don't they? And gorillas and monkeys, they just bang things, like dustbins on their head. That's what they do, isn't it? And drummers do it and get paid loads of money for it. Sack 'em all. Drum machines, I say.
Although not being a fan of their music, I wish both Damon and Alex a long and healthy life.
Let me tell you, I can drink for England. I like drinking. But drugs, no, they don't do it for me anymore. I haven't taken drugs in four years. I've done tours where I didn't do drugs at all, and it's cool because the emotions are real. The euphoria after a gig now is real, rather than feigned by the drugs I've ingested.
During the last tour, Liam was always drunk and a pain to be with, so I just walked off. I could either go to Ibiza and get my head together or hang out with a drunk all day. It was a pretty easy choice. But being in a band is all I can do. It was either that or just sit around the house eating chocolates all day.
I think greatest hits packages are fantastic, but people don't make good albums these days. The Rolling Stones made one good album, which was Let It Bleed. But the rest of them, I just can't sit through all that nonsense. They should just call it a day. I would like to say to them, `Have you not got anything better to do?' I mean, surely to God.
[Strokes] There's no f***ing excuse for not having your shoes match your
jacket. If you start with that criterion, then you'll be all right. The Strokes would do well to take that advice, 'cause the studded wristbands have already started to creep in. I noticed one bloke with a painted fingernail. I f***ing love them, but I think one of them is six months away from wearing a fedora.
Do you ever look to the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
Starsailor is f***ing dreadful. Their singer sounds like a cat being strangled. I think his songs are rubbish, and I don't think he can sing at all. It's just, like, `Oh, my daddy was an alcoholic.' So f***ing what? My dad used to beat my melon, but I don't put that in a song, do I? I have no time for people like that, picking the scabs of their personal lives.
Real rock stars don't drive. Real rock stars get driven. The truth is that Noel hadn't got his driver's licence!
'True perfection has to be imperfect' I love that line. I think it's very Zen Buddhist; I must have been smoking pot that time.
In Oasis, (the others) don't take drugs. Me and Liam do. We'll take anything that's put in front of us because...that's just the kind of guys we are. But we've never been on stage out of it. We've never taken heroin or crack.
Liam
Piwo jest najlepszym narkotykiem.
Lepiej pójdźcie zrobić sobie filiżankę herbaty, bo to chwilę potrwa. Teraz gra się tylko chrześcijańskiego rocka. W kółko te akustyczne gitary, za dużo tego wszystkiego. Rock'n'roll i punk rock przemknęły przez głowy tych muzyków. Dla mnie to jest chrześcijański rock drugiej kategorii.
Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
[Robbie wants to have sex with you] Liam: A lot of people want to have sex with me. And he's at the fooking back of the list. Fooking charity boxing matches, you fooking goon, but that's all over, thank fook. I don't give a shit no more; I couldn't give a shit about no-one, I'm on cloud nine.
[Damon out of Gorillaz, as he's now known, wants you in his band Liam.] Liam: Does he. Does he. Good. Fooking monkey. (Leaps out of seat, bowls around the floor) I've never fooking seen a gorilla with no hair! So he can fooking suck his own fooking cock and his mate in his band's cock. That cunt's going on about I haven't sung a decent tune for years, right? I think it's quite ironic. At least I do sing tunes; what's that fooking nonsense that's on the radio 'ooh-de-fucky-boo', its like fooking three-year-old's music, worse than Steps. Now there's a cunt who's not into it. Whatever happened to his beloved Blur? I'll slap that bald cunt when I see him, the dick.
I don`t give shit `bout America, America doesn`t give shit `bout me.
Without sounding arrogant, success fits my ego. I'd feel cheated without it.
I'm a fooking master at it. When I drink, I drink. I don't fooking pussy about. I get stuck in there and get wasted and I like it and I wake up the next day and think 'fooking hell' then I leave off for a bit. I'm quite happy with my drinking situation at the moment.
It's great. I fooking love being famous, me. I fooking love it, I love it. (Bawls head off) I LOOOVE IT!!!
What makes Oasis different?" Bonehead: "Good songs." Liam: "And a handsome lead singer with a beard"
It's a good thing we won, because we were going to thrash the place if we didn't. (po odebraniu nagrody)
Allright this party's shit and we're here to liven things up a bit. You know you're not havin' a good time but you're all too scared to say it, ya know mate. (MTV Music Video Awards, 1996)
Any of you touch me an' you'll get a smack, knowworrimean?
Nah, nah, nah. There's no rules. Show me the rule book.<>
When I'm onstage I just feel like gettin' on with the job. Tunnel vision, straight down the line. I gotta serious job, y'know what I mean? Onstage I can't feel that mic. It feels too real. I never touched the mic in my life. I like to sing with me hands behind me back. I can project my voice.
This one's for the people who can't read!
"Is it true that you guys think of yourselves as the Beatles of the '90s?" - "No, we are the Oasis of the '90s."
I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that. It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
Room-service, terrible.
Liam:You want to be Andrew Lloyd Weber, you do. You f_cker. Noel: Who's Andrew Lloyd Weber? Liam: I haven't got a clue. He's a golfer or something...
I'm ageless and he's a twat!
Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur.
How often do we argue? Every day. Hourly. But it's not hate. It's love. I don't hate him. It's love. It's one of them. We're brothers, man. It's deep shit
We just play our music and we should just be judged as musicians, and bloody good fines ones at that
I don't think there is a difference between me and Noel. He's a cunt, I'm a cunt. Don't let him spin you; he's a cunt, I tell you. I'm the one who gets made out to be the cunt, but he makes me the cunt. He pushes me to that cunt zone
The reason we're in every paper is cause there's something to write about, we're playing the game, and we mean it and we're honest and we've got the best songs. And that's why we're in everyone's face at the moment.
People say love should be like The Derby, but it's more like the Grand National. (o miłości)
Right now I'm young, I'm doing what I'm doing, and I love doing it.
It's weird being in a band with your brother. You go on the road, you live in the same van, we do interviews together. It's hell.
I still love the Beatles and I still love George Harrison as a song writer in the Beatles, but as a person I think he's a f***ing nipple. And if I ever meet him I'll f**king tell him. And if you're watching, NIP-PLE! How's he know I'm silly? I'm not silly. He only reads the press, you know what I mean? So he's the f***ing silly one.
I've been saying we're fucking great since our first interview, and that everyone else was shit. And I say the same thing now. People said to us, 'Who are you to say they're crap when you haven't even had an album out . But now we do, and it's number one. It's good to look back and say, "I've always thought your band was shit and we're the best," and still mean it. And if we become the biggest band in the world, we do, and if we don't we don't, I know we're the best band on the planet.
I was having sunday lunch with mum and Nick and this geezercomes up to me and says could he have a word? It's important. He said he had some information which needed to be passed on - I knew he was a loon because he had a bible. He said that John Lennon was the last person to know about it and that he was sent to pass it on to me. I said, Fuck off, get out of here! He said this information would make my jaw drop. So I said, Look, if you don't get the fuck out of here, man, see that? (pointing fist), That'll make your fucking jaw drop. So Fuck off, You cunt!
I'd rather stick needles in my foot mate. [sesja zdjęciowa z Richardem Blackwoodem, Q Awards]
He's mad for Star Wars. There's half planets coming out the walls, Death Star right in the middle. Sometimes I say to Pats: 'I'm sleeping with James tonight.' And she goes 'Come to bed Liam.' And I'm like 'Well lets have our room done like this then.
There are shit loads of meaning in the songs. I don't know what they mean, but there's still meaning there.
NO, me f**kin' mam did NOT put a bowl over me head – I went to the salon for a new f**kin' 'air-do.
Guigsy
Zasada była taka, że robimy to, na co mamy ochotę, ale tylko do momentu, w którym jesteśmy w stanie nad tym zapanować. Ja na przykład przed koncertem nigdy nie piję, bo potem jestem do niczego. Za to mogę palić do woli trawę. Natomiast Liam może wlać w siebie każdą ilość piwa i mimo to daje świetny koncert.
I can't stan these groups who whine on about how tough life on the road is. We love it and we go for it.
Alan
I don't really know what happened. I went home a couple of days after working with Idha to see if I'd had any calls, and my Mum said, 'Well, some bloke called Noel Gally...Gally-something...'.I said, 'What, Noel Gallagher?' 'Yeah, that's the bloke. He sounded Northern; he sounded like someone out of Coronation Street'. I said, 'You know who that is don't you, mum? Noel Gallagher from Oasis!' 'Who are they then?' 'Alright mum...' I thought somebody was winding me up, and I was literally waiting for Jeremy Beadle to walk in. I would have broken down in tears. (Alan dołączajac do Oasis).
Bonehead:
Impressions of Liam? Cocky bastard. Cool as fuck.
- Inni o nich -
No Way Sis:
If there are any other oasis tribute bands, then they are paying tribute to us
Select Magazine:
In Liam's world it's better to talk bullshit all day than be silent for one minute.
Peggy Gallaher, matka:
Noel was always a happy-go-lucky type, always had loads of friends. Noel would be growing up and he'd always have loads of girls, everyone that knocked at the door was for Noel.
Paul Gallagher, brat Noela i Liama:
Liam is so vain that if he went into hospital he'd insist on having the X-rays retouched.
He's very ambitious; He always was. He's not fantastically confident but quite brave, funny, intelligent, a bit paranoid at times and incredibly big-headed and very moody. I sometimes think that Noel does think he's better than everyone else, and I don't mean just musically. He loves music and likes to hang out with cool people, always wanting and needing to be the best; but then all the Gallagher boys do
Lars Urlich, Metallica:
Oasis have got the best singer, they're the biggest band in the world and they've sold more albums than anybody else, except for us.
