Oasis, Liam & Noel imparticular, never seem to be afraid to speak their mind. Here are some of their more interesting quotes, as well as lines taken from "Wibbling Rivalry"

LIAM GALLAGHER:"I love it when girls fancy me, I'm madferit. But I get a little worried when the boys start fancying me. I don't have anything against gays as long as they don't touch my bum."

NOEL GALLAGHER:"It is hard to be modest at times like these, so I won't even try-you're all shite!"

LIAM GALLAGHER:"We are bigger than Jesus, we will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger."

NOEL GALLAGHER:"I wish the pair of them would catch aids and die." [Noel speaking of Damon & Alex of Britpop rival band "Blur". Noel did apologize for saying this, but says that he doesn't think people will ever forgive him for it.]

LIAM GALLAGHER:"Being a lad is what I'm all about. I can tell you who isn't a lad, anyone from Blur."

NOEL GALLAGHER:"It's a good thing we don't live in the u.s. where guns are more accessable,because I'd have blown his head off by now. The problem is I can't fire him because me ma would kill me." [Speaking of Liam]

LIAM GALLAGHER:"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."

NOEL GALLAGHER:"Has beens shouldn't be presenting f***ing awards to gonna-be's. I'm extremely rich & you're not." [Noel's acceptance speech after INXS' Michael Hutchence presented him the award for Best Album at the 1996 Brit Awards.]

LIAM GALLAGHER:"Anyone who thinks they're hard enough to take us off the stage can come up now." [Liam at the Brit Awards]

NOEL GALLAGHER:"Liam's young, he's on a complete trip & he's all...mouth at the moment.-And that winds me up. He's a genius frontman, he was born to this and that's something I can't be. But he also wishes he was me, always has. His fans come up to him after shows & I hear him giving all this gob-shite, and I think, 'Shut-up you twat, I babysat for you!'"

NOEL GALLAGHER:"If you don't want to be as big as The Beatles than it's just a hobby."

NOEL GALLAGHER"From what I've heard from Paul McCartney, he likes about a half dozen of my songs. I met him twice, on the Come Together album& then I went round his house in St.John's Woods one night. He likes SLIDE AWAY, WHATEVER, & LIVE FOREVER. If I'd been Knocked over by a taxi that night, I'd have died the happiest man."

NOEL GALLAGHER:[When asked how oasis compare to most other British bands, such as Elastica, Supergrass, & Blur] "Those other bands are not even in a position to string my guitar at the moment."

LIAM GALLAGHER:"Don't have a piss in the stands because I'll be standing there next week."[Liam's announcement to the crowd at their Maine Road concert. Maine Road is where Liam's favorite soccer team, Man City, play & he was going to be in the stands the following week to watch a game.]

NOEL GALLAGHER:"You Americans, you like taking your shoes off & throwing them at people who are playing music for you. -Now I've been to s me concerts in my life, some that were really bad, some that were really good, & some that were average, but I've never once bent down & untied me shoe & thrown it at the stage...it's wierd."

LIAM GALLAGHER:"When I can do the job it's good, you know what I mean. I'm happy. When I can't do the job I'm not happy. -Like when I can only do 4 songs and come off with a shoe coming out me ear."

NOEL GALLAGHER: "Now we drink pepsi." [oasis were sued by the Coca-Cola company who charged that their song 'SHAKERMAKER' was too much like 'I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING..."]

NOEL GALLAGHER:"oasis aren't role models, we're honest. This is what we do, & this is what we get up to. We're not criminals, devils, or anti-christs, we're people."

LIAM GALLAGHER "If you want a circus go to the circus. I can't jump about when I'm trying to sing songs. It works for Mick Jagger, but it's not for us."

LIAM GALLAGHER: "I can see "Our Dob" from here.

NOEL GALLAGHER: "He's the size of the place." [Liam & Noel speaking of their older & overweight brother, Paul "Dob" Gallagher.]

BONEHEAD: [after being asked how touring has affected family life.] "It's made us bloody rich."

NOEL GALLAGHER: [After being asked if his obsession with The Beatles could go too far.] "It's beyond an obsession. It's an ideal for living. I don't even know how to justify it to myself. With every song I write I compare it to The Beatles. I've gotten semi-close once or twice. LIVE FOREVER I suppose, DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER, WHATEVER. 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. Well, I'd definitely have been better than Gerry & The F***ing Pacemakers, I know that."

NOEL GALLAGHER: "I hate rock-stars that whine about the price of fame..let me just tell you that being famous is great. I love it, man! When you get stopped walking down the street for an autograph that's the best feeling in the world."

NOEL GALLAGHER: "You want to be me & Liam for an afternoon? You'd slit your throat."

These next few quotes were sent to me by Ilaria...(thanx for the quotes, Ilaria.....!!)

"If you write about social issues,you're gonna get asked about them.Fortunately for us,we were writing about drinking and shagging birds and taking drugs." -NOEL

"F**k me I've joined The Troggs!"(ALAN after witnessing a row between the two Gallaghers)

"Our manager Marcus said to me,' Who the f*** do they think they are? ' and I was going, ' No,more to the point,who the f*** do they think we are? ' " -(NOEL on Blur)

"They won't be singing Shite House in ten years time,but they'll sure as hell remember Don't Look Back In Anger or Champagne Supernova,or Live Forever" -NOEL

"I'm the quiet,shy,retiring type.The rest of the band are hooligans.Liam & Bonehead are f***ing thugs" -NOEL

These next few quotes were sent to me by Jana. Thank U Jana!

" I'd like to know which rock-star doesn't take drugs! And we all know that even members of the parliament take cocain and heroin. " NOEL

( NOEL on Liam when Liam got married ): "He called me about 9:30 and said:' I have just got married. Are you surprised? I said: 'No, I'm not surprised about you getting married, I'm just shocked you're up so early! '"

( Noel Gallagher to medias when they told that Patsy is something like "YOKO PATSY ONO"): That's pure crap! Patsy could never make an influence on our band. Cause if she could, she would have to control Liam first, and that's definitely impossible thing. The two of them are just... how can I put this...- fascinated with their sex!! On the other hand, that would mean that Oasis completly depends on Liam, and that's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard...

NOEL : " I meet these kids in the street and they're shaking, but I'm saying: ' I'm honoured to meet you ' I am an old romantic. It makes me cry. It's beyond special. "

NOEL : "I always knew that it was going to be. And lo and behold, the chancer that I am , it f*c*i*g happened. "

NOEL : "If I were to take John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Ray Davies, Steve Mariott, anybody's first two albums against my first two albums, I'm there, I'm with The Beatles."

LIAM (on Noel) : "His songs? They're what gets me out of bed in the morning. He's top. A fantastic songwriter. He's the devil, isn't he, man?"

ALAN McGEE [Head of Creation Records] (on Liam) : "Liam is a f*c*i*g genius and nobody pays him enough respect. He's portrayed as a football hooligan and a yob when, in fact, he's the one of the most intelligent, warm-hearted, sensitive, spiritual individuals that I've ever met. The person I read about in the papers is not the person I know......He's the best R'n'R singer in the world, the best there's ever been. He's better than Elvis, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Rod Stewart. Better than John Lydon, even. Liam can sing better than all these guys, and he's got more attitude than Johnny Rotten. Johnny Rotten was the king, man, but Liam's dethroned him.......When you listen to Liam singing, his voice aches. You can feel all the anger and all the hurt that's happened to him and all the ways he's been let down in his life since he was a kid. That's why people look up to him. Even black kids identify with Liam, which is unusual for a white R'n'R singer.......People have put him down for dedicating "Live Forever" to princess Diana, but I'm with Liam on this. I f*c*i*g hate the Royal Family. But his point was, she's somebody's mother. He sees something for what it really is. Whether these people are princes or not, they've lost their mother, that's f*c*i*g horrific. Liam's got a big f*c*i*g heart. That's why I love him."

Here's some cool quotes sent to me by Gayla. So, thanks Gayla!!:

Noel, MTV rockumentary- "I'm not irresponsible, if I was irresponsible I'd be a Priest ....I'd be a good songwritin' priest..........I'd write some crackin'  hymns!"

Noel to Liam, Wib Riv-  "What pub, where?"

Liam, to anyone who'll listen- "I like fightin'...me"

Noel, about being a dad- "there's a time for being a rock star, on TV, and in the studio, but you've got to put time aside for being daddy, and getting chocolate rubbed in your face"

QUOTES TAKEN FROM WIBBLING RIVALRY:

"Wibbling Rivalry took place at the Forte Crest Hotel, Glasgow on April 17,1994. -When Q Magazine's John Harris attempted an interview with the Gallagher brothers he should've known that anything could happen. Below are some quotes [not the full transcipt] taken from the argument the Gallagher brothers got into during that infamous interview now known as "Wibbling Rivalry"

Q: How do you feel that already oasis have atracted areputation for being Rock n' Roll animals?

LIAM: I'm into it, me. But at the end of the day, like he says, I go home & get a clip from me mam. -& I do. She clips me round the head & goes,'What are you like you little tinker?'

...LIAM: I like the way it's bubbling up. It's reminding me of The Roses all over again. I like that, me. I want to get 2000 people in a nice gaff who are there to see me. I want to be there...

NOEL: Woah. Hang on a minute. That's not what he's on about.

LIAM:He is.

NOEL: He's on about a reputation, about getting thrown off f***ing ferries. Gettng thrown off ferries & getting deported is summat that I'm not proud about.

LIAM: Well I am, la.

[Noel was in Amsterdam waiting for the rest of the band who got thrown off the boat after getting deported.]

NOEL:These lot think it's rock n roll to get thrown off

LIAM: I don't

NOEL: Shut-up, man! These lot think it's rock n roll to get thrown off a ferry. Do you know what my manager said to him? He said,"Nah. Rock n roll is doing your gig, playing your music, coming back & saying you blew 'em away.' Not getting thrown off the ferry like some scouse schlepper with handcuffs. That's football hooliganism, & I won't stand for it. -& listen, they all got fined a thousand pounds each.

LIAM: We didn't at all. You can stick your thousand pounds right up arse till it comes out your f***ing big toe.

...NOEL: If you think rock n roll is about being arrested...

LIAM: Rock n roll is about being yourself. -& I went on that boat, I had a drink, I had too much beer & I got in a fight & that was it.

NOEL: Rock n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me its not about oasis. Its about the songs.

...Q: Would The Stones have done anything without getting arrested & getting peoples backs up?

LIAM: Would they f***! That's why they were so good.

NOEL: [Super-indignant} What? 'Cos The Stones got arrested! Because The Rolling Stones got arrested they were a great rock n roll band B.S.! B.S.!

LIAM: But they had summat else there.

NOEL: They had what? an edge? Is that what you're saying?

LIAM: A life!

NOEL: We've got a life! We've got a life!

LIAM: We haven't if you start going on like that. [Begins to mince up & down bedroom.] Do you want to walk around like that? Like that?

NOEL: Not at all.

LIAM: [Still mincing] and get on your stage & do that?

NOEL: Not at all. You think its rock n roll to get thrown off a ferry, & that's not.

LIAM: I don't think its rock n roll.

NOEL: That was your quote you prick! It's rock n rooooool! It's rock n roooooool!

...NOEL: We're not a bunch of boxers. Are we? The band is about music. It's not about getting thrown off ferries. [exasperatedly] Why don't you go downstairs & smash the bar up & say you're the singer of oasis?

LIAM: 'Cos I don't want to. If I did there's nothing would stop me.

NOEL: Then why don't you go & make a scene,then? Why don't you do a Keith Richards? Throw the TV out of the window!

LIAM: I don't want to do that. If I wanted to do it I'd just go like that & do it, & do it. But I don't want to do that. I'm not about that.

...NOEL: The thing is, you're not a spokesman for the band.

LIAM: Are you?

NOEL: Yeah, I am.

LIAM: You might be in your little world, but as far as I'm concerned, if you think what I'm saying is B.S. I think what you're saying is B.S., man.

NOEL: Fine. You don't speak for the band.

LIAM: You don't speak for the band.

NOEL: I do speak for the band.

LIAM: I speak for the band.I'm speaking now for the band. And I'm into it. [referring to Noel] He's teetotal. He's a priest. He was born to be a priest.

NOEL: No. The difference is, I don't get caught.

LIAM: So what you're trying to say, right. What you're trying to say right, that I'm out in a pub, yeah, I have a few beers, yeah, a situation arises, & I'm supposed to go like that [makes suitably effeminate gesture]

NOEL: What pub, where?

LIAM: Anywhere! The boat is the same thing.

...NOEL: You walk into hotel foyers & you get everybody at it & you go 'Pssst.' knocking on people's doors...

LIAM: I'm having the crack. It's not doing anyone any harm. That's me. John Lennon used to burn about doing little mad things.

NOEL: Do you know John Lennon?

LIAM:Do you know him?

NOEL: I don't, but do you?

LIAM: Yeah

NOEL: Well, you must be pretty old. How old are you? 21?

LIAM: No. About f***n' thousand & five f***n' one.

NOEL: You're 22.

LIAM: I'm 21.

NOEL: Right. & remember, I watched you being born, & I don't even know John Lennon-So shut-up about knowing John Lennon.

LIAM: Well, what are you trying to say then? You want us to be teetotal & walk around & go like that? [more mincing]

NOEL: Music! Music! Music! Music! Music! Music! It's all about music!

LIAM: You want to be Keith Richards. Admit it.

NOEL: Let's talk about music. Let's not talk about you being a hard guy. Let's talk about music. Let's talk about music!

LIAM: You're getting hung up about a situation that occured on a boat!

...Q: How often do you argue like this?

LIAM: Every day.

NOEL: Hourly.

...Q: Do you have any recurring dreams?

NOEL: Yeah, just the one.

LIAM: [Menacingly] I take over the band.

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