Quotes @ Velvet Sky

Quotes

This page is color coded (which took a long time to do). Noel, Liam, Other Oasis Member, Someone Else.

Quotes From Oasis:

"I'm mad for it!"
-Liam

"Eat more vegetables."
-Noel to Guigsy

Noel in Ireland: This one's called Hello
Liam: No it's called Howareya!

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

"Stools excite me. Shoes excite me. Lagers excite me. America excites me. I'm just one very excited young man!"
-Liam

"I love pissing people off... I love pissing meself off!"
-Liam

Interviewer: What was your biggest break? [in music] - Jason from New York wants to know.
Liam: My biggest break was 39 [snooker]
Bonehead: Mine was a hole in one [golf]

"Manchester bored me cos it's too small. You can't fart without everybody knowing about it."
-Noel

"I've only got one thing to say 'Sausages'."
-Liam accepting a Brit Award in '96

"Best act today. Tomorrow. The day after that. And the day after that."
-Noel on winning Q Magizine Award for Best Act in the World Today

"I've done the groupie bit... but I'm not in the band to sleep around. I am in it for two big reasons. I love music and I want to be very rich."
-Noel

"We had a couple of guitars, a couple of amps, Liam could sing, y'know what I mean?... It was either get yourself together in a band or get drunk every night. Better than hanging about the streets, y'know what I mean?"
-Bonehead on the reason for Oasis

"If you're not bigger than the Beatles, it's just a hobby."
-Noel

"If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you might as well pack it in."
-Noel

"We're not arrogant, we just know we're the best band in the world."
-Noel

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 spiruital riddle to which only I have the answer.

"It's hard to be modest at times like these, so I won't even try...you are all sh**e!"
-Noel

Interviewer: I have with me one of the stars of Oasis...
Noel: What do you mean one of the stars?

"Yet again, I was right! It's pisser being right all the time--it bores the t*ts off me!"
-Noel

"...I am the most handsome."
-Noel
(too true!)

"What makes Oasis different?"
Bonehead: Good songs.
Liam: And a handsome lead singer with a beard.

"I'm not like Jonh Lennon , who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon."
-Noel

"I'm not a god, but f**k me I'm close"
-Noel

"I'm Rich, You're Not!"
-from Noel's acceptance speech at the '95 Brit Awards

"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 f**kin' records in Gloucester, and you're telling me you'd hate to be in my position? I've got a f**kin' Rolls-Royce and a f**kin' bastard mansion, and an airplane and you'd hate to be me? Ha, not as much as I'd f**kin' hate to be you, you daft cu** -- living in a f**kin' squat with your bird and a f**kin' dog! Yeah, being a multi-millionaire is a big, bad pain in the @ss, 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.

Dani Behr: What's it like having loads of money now.
Noel: ...er...it's alright

"This one's for the people who can't read!"
-Liam

"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
-Liam

"Those plate glass windows are just saying 'throw a chair through me'."
-Noel on chairs and windows

"Any of you touch me an' you'll get a smack, knowworrimean?"
-Liam

"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.

Noel: What the f**k is that supposed to mean!?
Liam: You can shove this microphone right up your f**king *ss!
(after someone holds up a Blur-loving-Oasis-bashing sign at a concert)

"Allright this party's sh*t 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

"Let me try to do the interview... So tell me, what's life like being a transvestite?"
-Noel at the MTV Music Awards preshow

"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)

"Don't have a piss in the stands because I'll be standing there next week."
-soccermad Liam at the Maine Road gig (Maine Rd. is where Man. City play and is the club supported by Liam)

"Barrie is the biggest hole in the Western Hemisphere"
-Noel during Oasis gig in Barrie, Ontario, 'opening' for Neil Young

"Whoever's throwing things like this on stage... like... if you don't like the music, f**k 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 f**king hang yourself! Don't be throwing f**king stones on stage like this...I don't wanna go blind over some f**king dickhead! This one's called...this one's called Roll With It, dickhead!"
-Liam at Slane Castle, after a rock was thrown at him on stage

"F***ing Wankers! This one's for all the people in the back"
-Noel at Slane Castle

"I used to faint every time I had a spliff. The doctor said 'Basically you're alright with anything that gets you going, cos you need that.' I love my doctor, man."
-Noel

"Americans are crazy...I've been to a lot of shows in me life...I was never moved to take me off shoes and throw it at the lead singer."
-Noel on Americans that throw shoes

"Someone said that with you Americans, you like taking your shoes off and throwing them at people who are playing music for you. Now, I can't understand it, I've been to some concerts in my life...but i've never once bent down and untied me shoe and took it off and thrown it out there at the singer. It's weird."
-Noel (yeah similar to the above quote... but different)

"They're off their t*ts here."
-Liam on America

Mtv's John Norris: You still having a good time?
Liam: Yeah, I'm rocking. Yeah. When I'm allowed to do the job, things are good, I'm happy, but when I'm not allowed to do the job, I'm not happy.
Mtv: Meaning like when you got.....
Liam: Meaning like when you go on and do four songs and come off with a shoe coming out me ear.

MTV: Are there places in this country [USA] 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 the morning, everyon's on the bus going, 'f**k, 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 *pttt*. 'Where in the hell you'd get that accent from?'

"Have you seen some of the stories they have on here? 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, 'F**k it, I've always hated my wife, the stupid bag.' So he kills her. 'What the f**k, 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? Suing the doctor. (laughs) He's taking him to court. 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

"Imagine if us four were walking down the street, they'd all say , 'Look at those mad f**kers with their haircuts.' When in reality it would be them who are the nutters."
-Liam

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. F**k 'em."

"I'm not going to play for silly yanks when I haven't got a house to live in!"
-Liam

"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

"We're not the psycopaths we're made out to be, but you don't take sh** do you?"
-Noel

"What people have to understand is that we're lads, we have burgled houses and nicked car stereos, and we like girls and we swear."
-Noel

"My main concern before going on stage is, What frame of mind is Our Kid going to be in? Will he get f**ked off and walk off, which he is perfectly capable of doing."
-Noel

"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
-Liam

"We have a fight most days. It clears the air."
-Liam

"It's the theory of relativity, isn't it? When I was 15, he [Liam] was 10. A social life with him was inconceivable. It's laughable to think I'd end up in a band with him. But here we are. I'm 28 and he's 23. Such is life. When I'm 65, he'll be 60 and it'll be irrelevant, we'll both be old together."
-Noel

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)

"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."
-Noel
note: there's a typo.. it has that same quote with both Noel AND Liam saying it... but I think the Liam part is the typo

"I was as loud as Our Kid is...I did the same things he does every night."
-Noel before Oasis

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.

"I'm ageless and he's a tw**!"
-Liam

"I f***ing hate that tw** there, I f***ing hate him. And one day, I hope I can smash f**k out of him with a f***ing Rickenbacker right on his head."
-Liam (ahh... brotherly love is great huh?)

Liam: Me and our kid, we like, love each other by now.
Noel: I f***ing hate him, he's a prick...
Liam: Oh we do, honest to God-
Noel: He's a prick-
Liam: And all this bullsh** about fighting is all a load of lies
Noel: ...he's a tw**-
Liam: Me an' him...
Noel: ...and he's a bald tw**
Liam: Love each other! We do honestly.
(hmm... a love-hate relationship?)

"They're [Blur] a good comedy band. Well, they make me laugh anyway. We're a proper band, I always knew Oasis would be the next big thing."
-Noel

"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

"Although not being a fan of their [Blur, again] music, I wish both Damon and Alex a long and healthy life."
-Noel

"Now we all drink Pepsi"
-Noel after being sued by Coke

"It goes back to twenty years ago, when I was nine years old... 1974... all these kids with long hair were looking at me and they used to call me 'Bonehead', because I had a short haircut. So it just stuck. No getting out of it now. Some people shout 'Paul!' and I ignore it: 'Me?'"
-Bonehead on why he's called "Bonehead"

"Guigs is a hippie, a wanna be hippie...he smokes pot and reads books"
-Noel

"Useless"
-Noel on Tony McCarroll

"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."
-Whitey when he joined Oasis

Photographer: But some bands give over eight hours for this...
"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)

"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

"Keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John."
-Noel on keyboard players

"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 get paid loads of money for it. Sack 'em all. Drum machines, I say."
-Noel on drummers (sorry Alan!)

Mtv's John Norris: "Can I ask you about the mystery that everybody wants to know about, the 'Champagne Supernova' video, the help thing at the end? He probably improvised that?"
Noel: "It probably took him six hours to work that out. Improvise, are you kidding? Improvise, no way. He's probably working at it for months. There was a lot of dominos lying about and he said, "Shall I write something out?" and the director said yes so he wrote "Help" which I thought was quite touching because he does need help...sh**loads of it."

"I need help."
-Liam (ah-ha! he agrees!)

"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

"If saying a few seemingly outrageous things has helped instigate an open and honest debate about drug use in this country, then i'm pleased."
-Noel

"As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs, then we'll be better off."
-Noel

"Right now I'm young, I'm doing what I'm doing, and I love doing it."
-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)

"They've all lost it. Ray Davies, Pete Townshend, as songwriters, totally lost it... people hold John Lennon in esteem, but if he hadn't been shot how sad would he be today?"
-Noel

"If we were to take John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Ray Davies, Steve Marriot- anybody's first two albums against my first two albums- I'm there with the Beatles."
-Noel

"I was about six when I started getting the 'Red Album' out... They're songs to grow up with, really... 'The Red Album' documents the Beatles as the greatest pop band ever and 'The Blue Album' documents them as the greatest rock band ever."
-Noel on the greatest ever pop/rock band, The Beatles (although Oasis aint too shabby...)

"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."
-Noel

"It's like anything. If you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer, you've 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." --Noel

"I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it. Get a bit worried if boys started fancying me, definitely. I've got nothing against gays, they do what they do, I do what I do... as long as they don't pinch me on the bum or whatever."
-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 f**kin' go work at a car wash or McDonald's or something?"
-Noel, on MTV 1994

"1998 is the year for The Verve and Radiohead. I'm not stupid. We've been the biggest band for 3 years and now it's somebody else's turn."
-Noel

"The fans confound me. I mean, I meet these kids in the street and they're shaking but I'm saying: 'I'm honoured to meet you'."
-Noel

"I vowed I would play centre-forward at Maine Road one day. Now I will settle for centre-stage."
-Noel

"To be acknowledged as a songwriter has definitely made me more content. I know I will leave my mark."
-Noel

Quotes About Oasis:

"Oasis got their foot in the door and kiked it down"
-John Power (Cast)

"Whoever said that Barnum and Bailey was the
greatest show on earth has obviously never seen Oasis perform."
-Mary, an Oasis fan

"In Liam's world it's better to talk bullshit all day than be silent for one minute"
-Select Magazine

"Metal Edge Asks: "What are your top 5 albums of 1997?"
Ozzy Osbourne Replies: "To be honest with you, I haven't even been listening to any. Although I do like the new Oasis album [Be Here Now]. That's the only one I have been listing to as of late"

"They called it their wonderwall, 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"
-Thomas Gallagher (Noel and Liam�s dad) on the real Wonderwall

"A lot of these wild stories are made up. Privately they've got great admiration for each other. Liam looks up to Noel because he writes the songs and Noel looks up to Liam because of his voice."
-Mrs Gallagher (Noel and Liam's mum)
(personally I think Noel also has a great voice)

(I am looking for more quotes...)