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"Everyone knows that if
you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
- Liam Gallagher
"Sure I love Liam, but
not as much as I love Pot Noodles."
- Noel Gallagher
"I love playing music.
It's a gift that was 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 shop."
- Noel Gallagher
"Don't have a piss in the
stands because I'll be standing there next week."
- Soccer-mad Liam at the Maine Rd gig (Maine Rd. is where Man. City play
and is the club supported by Liam)
"Americans are crazy. They
have this facination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot
shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off
me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."
- Noel
"Let me try to do the interview...
So tell me, what's life like being a transvestite?"
- Noel at the MTV Music Awards preshow
"My main concern before
going on stage is, What frame of mind is Our Kid going to be in? Will
he get fucked off and walk off, which he is perfectly capable of doing. He was
annoyed when somebody threw a rock at him at a gig, the bloke responsible was
lucky cos if we hadn't been having such a good time we'd have jumped in and
put him in intensive care. We're not the psychopaths we're made out to be but
you don't take shit do you?"
- Noel
"Whoever's throwing things
like this on stage...like...if you don't like the music, fuck off! If
there're any more coming on, I'm off. And you gotta deal with all these people
here who are enjoying themselves. If you don't like it, go fucking hang
yourself! Don't be throwing fucking stones on stage like this...I don't
wanna go blind over some fucking dickhead!
This one's called...this one's called Roll With It, dickhead!"
- Liam uses colourful language at Slane Castle after a rock was
thrown at him on stage.
"Fucking Wankers!
This one's for all the people at the back"
- Noel at Slane Castle
"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?"
- Noel
"It is hard to be modest
at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!"
- Noel
Interviewer: I have
with me one of the stars of oasis...
Noel: What do you mean one
of the stars?
"I was as loud as
Our Kid is...I
did the same things he does every night."
- Noel
before Oasis
"If you don't want to be
the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in."
- Noel
"I told Our Kid
the band was shite, but he definitely had something as a frontman. Then I said
you either let me write everything, control everything, and make all the decisions,
or forget it."
- Noel
"Eat more vegetables."
- Noel
to Guigsy
"I was walking along and
this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, it's
gonna be good tonight."
- Liam on the joys of touring
Guitar world: There
has been much talk about the quarreling between you and your brother Liam. Is
that hype as well?
Noel: Yeah, a little of it is true, but the rest is just NME and Melody
Maker blowing it completely out of proportion. Say you worked for NME, and Liam
comes over arguing about something, and I tell him to get lost - the next day,
the headline would be "Liam and Noel From Oasis in Hotel Brawl." (laughs)
"They called it their wonderwall,"
explains Tommy, pointing over to the far wall "It's what they named the single
after." "In 1983 they both started writing on the wall. Bits of songs, poems,
favourite bands, football teams. In one corner Noel wrote 'I Love Diane Jones'
and underneath, in the same writing, 'Liam is a puff.' "They'd fight terribly
about who had the most writing space,"
- Father Gallagher (Tommy) on the REAL Wonderwall
"In Newcastle some geezer
jumped up on the stage and punched me in the eye. It went off pretty bad; there
was a riot at the gig. You always get that in England. There's always someone
in the front giving you the finger. Did they queue up for six hours just to
come down and call me a wanker? I don't understand that mentality. It's very
strange."
- Noel
"I'm not going to play
for silly yanks when I haven't got a house to live in!"
- Liam
"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!
I just think Americans are tired of people telling them how crap their lives
are. I think when people listen to our music, we tell them how good their lives
could be.
I guess I just can't understand the thoughts of Eddie Vedder or that whole bit...
I mean, lad, if you hate your job so much, why don't you fuckin' go work at
a car wash or McDonald's or something?"
- Noel, on MTV 1994
"Don't you hate it when
they have has-beens hand out the awards at these things...(drifting off) Well,
I guess I should talk a little longer, so: I'm Rich, You're Not!"
- Noel's acceptance speech from the 1995 Brit Awards, after receiving
best album award from Ex-INXS frontman Micheal Hutchence.
They say, "How's it goin'?"
and I say "Great." And then they go (affects empathetic voice), "Tch, you know
what, man? I'd really hate to be in your position, man. I mean, your life must
be really hard." And I'm thinking, what? You sell two fuckin' records in Gloucester,
and you're telling me you'd hate to be in my position? I've got a fuckin' Rolls-Royce
and a fuckin' bastard mansion, and an airplane and you'd hate to be me? Ha,
not as much as I'd fuckin' hate to be you, you daft cunt -- living in a fuckin'
squat with your bird and a fuckin' dog! Yeah, being a multi-millionaire is a
big, bad pain in the ass, man -- you wouldn't want to wish that on anybody.
- Noel
Noel: "What are
we gonna do now?"
Musician: Spend some of your money perhaps?
Noel: Yeah, but what on? I've got everything I want. I could only go
and buy two of everything now -- that just gets boring.
"Jarvis is a star! I mean,
all he did was get up on stage and get his belly out, but in England people
thought it was so shocking. It's not as if he cracked [Jackson] on the head
with a baseball bat -- which is what I woulda fuckin' done if I'd gone up there."
- Noel
"Yet again, I was right!
It's a pisser being right all the time -- it bores the tits off me!"
- Noel
"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.' "
- Noel
Noel: Why don't
you go downstairs and smash the bar up and say you're the singer of Oasis?
Liam: 'Cos I don't want to. If I did, there's nothing would stop me.
Dani Behr: Do you
still have physical fights.
Noel: No. The last time was in March or May and we haven't done since
because...
Dani Behr: Who won?
Noel: I did. He claims its because he was drunk, but I claimed I had
won because I had a cricket bat in my hand.
Dani Behr: What's
it like having loads of money now.
Noel: ...er...it's alright
"I do all the work so it's
only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome"
- Noel
"In Liam's world it's better
to talk bullshit all day than be silent for one minute"
- Select Magazine
"Look at you, Whitey [refers
to Alan White] - in the group for one year and already you got the big house
and the car. There's me, right, struggling along for fucking years and then
what happens at Christmas? 'Here you are, Whitey,' goes McGee, 'Here's your
Xmas present.' And it's a car, a fucking car. 'Here you are Liam, lead singer,
original member, who's worked his arse off for years, here's yours.' Compared
to you, nish, fucking nish, and you've been in the group a year. Outrageous
tackle."
- Liam
"But some
bands give over eight hours for this," says the photographer.
Swiftly and bluntly, Noel and Liam put him straight on that one. "We're not
some band. And your paper didn't make us, mate. And you know what about your
Rolling Stone cover? Arsed mate, arsed."
- Noel and Liam and Rolling Stone
photographer after Oasis walked off after 1 hour
"What makes Oasis
different?"
Bonehead: "Good songs."
Liam: "And a handsome lead singer with a beard."
Noel orders a beer, the
rest opt for lemonades and Cokes. Above us, the TV is on. CNN News. "Have you
seen some of the stories they have on here?" Noel enquires. "Check this one
I saw this morning. There's this guy who's 75 and he's got cancer. So his doctor
tells him he's got about two years to live. So he thinks, 'Fuck it, I've always
hated my wife, the stupid bag.' So he kills her. 'What the fuck, I've got nothing
to lose.' Then he's put in jail but, the problem is, he doesn't die. He's 99
now and guess what he's doing?" Noel surveys our expectant faces. "Suing the
doctor," he cackles. "He's taking him to court," he continues, pissing himself.
"And he's saying, ' If it wasn't for what you told me I would never have killed
my wife and now you owe me ten million pounds.' I'm sitting there thinking,
'I know I live in a mad country but it's not half as crazy as it is here.'"
- Noel in America
"They're off their tits
here."
- Liam on Americans
"Now we all drink Pepsi"
- Noel after being sued by Coke
Liam: I need to
be myself
Noel: I wanna be a Spaceman
If I ever get to go to the
moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta
go home now.'
- Noel
"Useless"
- Noel referring to Tony McCarroll
"Guigs is a hippie, a wanna
be hippie...he smokes pot and reads books"
- Noel
"People say love should
be like The Derby, but it's more like the Grand National."
- Liam on love
"Right now I'm young, I'm
doing what I'm doing, and I love doing it."
- Liam
"I've only got one thing
to say. 'Sausages'."
- Liam
accepting a Brit Award in
1996
"Best act today. Tomorrow.
The day after that. And the day after that."
- Noel on winning the Q Magazine Award for Best Act in the World Today
"It's a good thing we won,
because we were going to thrash the place if we didn't."
- Liam receiving yet another award for oasis
"If you're not in it to
be bigger than the Beatles, it's just a hobby."
- Noel
"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."
- Liam at the MTV Music Video Awards in New York 1996
"Barrie is the biggest hole
in the Western Hemisphere"
- Noel during Oasis gig in Barrie, Ontario, 'opening' for Neil Young
MTV: Are there places
in this country that you'd just assume not travel to?
Noel: ehh...yes. Them places where, 'got any barbers where you come from
boy? You boy's like country music?' Out there in, you know, them weird little
truck stops you get to at like 6 in theh morning, everyon's on the bus going,
'fuck, I'm not going in there'. You know what I mean, he he, the chance of me
going in there, there's old geezers with snakeskin baseball caps on backwards,
chewing tobacco 'Where in the hell you'd get that accent from?'
"Anyway, we go in and start
recording in October. We're gonna do the single and have it out in January,
and around then we'll start recording the album. All depending wether we split
up in the studio and the usual bollocks, walk-outs and bust ups and trying to
get Bonehead out of the boozer."
- Noel
"Discipline? I don't know
the meaning of the word."
-
Liam
"Being a lad is what I'm
about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur"
- Liam on
being a lad
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.
"Those guys who want to
kidnap me had better hurry up and do a good job because we'll all be waiting
for them."
- Liam at Maine Road (the band were getting death threats from Man United
fans)
In a Camden bar on Friday, October 4, Noel told an NME reporter that the band would not be returning to America. When asked if this meant that Oasis would not return to America ever he said: "No. Fuck 'em."
"Any of you touch me an'
you'll get a smack, knowworrimean?"
- Liam
Interviewer: You
once said in an interview that all the songs on Morning Glory have a connection.
What is the connection?
Noel: It's all part of a big spiritual riddle to which only I have the
answer. "Liam is so vain that if he went into hospital he'd insist on having
the X-rays retouched."
- Paul Gallagher (older brother of fetching Liam)
"You can put your life in
the hands, of this rock n roll band. Cos we'll never throw it all away"
- Noel
at Knebworth (Don't Look Back in Anger)
"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 when he joined Oasis
Oasis are the best band
since Lennon & McCartney
- D'arcy (from the Smashing
Pumpkins)
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
- Lars Ulrich (from
Metallica)
This should've gone to Oasis
because they are the best rock band since the Beatles
D'arcy
(when accepting award for best rock act at MTV Europe Awards)
I liked it when he spit
on the stage, it was so non-punk that it was punk all over again.
-
Beck (talking about Liam's performance at the MTV Music Awards)
