Quotes By Oasis

"Is there anyone around I find threatening to Oasis? No. Travis are OK. Embrace

might be all right if their vocalist starts getting some singing lessons. It's good to see

The Verve returning. Radiohead are all right. They could do with speeding up some

of their songs but I love the music and the sound of their records. Yeah, if Oasis and

Radiohead are the world's two most important bands, that'll do me."

- NOEL

"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!"

- NOEL

"If I saw an alien I'd tell it to fuck right off because whatever planet he came from,

they wouldn't have the Beatles or any decent music. So they can fuck right off, I

ain't going nowhere with them."

- LIAM

"I am the songwriter, the brains behind the band, the quiet calm one. Liam's the

nutcase, a stubborn little...."

- NOEL

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

- LIAM

"We're the best band on the planet. That's not arrogance, that's just a fact."

- NOEL, Aug '94

"Liam's the King of the Lads. Not me. I'm the King of Kings!"

- NOEL

"Rain? (the group's first name) They were rubbish! Terrible! Absolutely dreadful!"

- NOEL

Quotes On Oasis

"I've got a lot of respect for them, really. To have that much balls - it's amazing. I

don't know how they do it, I haven't a fuckin' clue. I can't do it. But I also think I

have a problem with the rock'n'roll myth thing. To me, It's fucking bullshit. But

they won't get caught in it because Noel's too smart. I hope he's too smart, 'cos it's

daft." - THOM YORKE (Radiohead)

"I've listened to the new Oasis album (BE HERE NOW) once or twice. Their thing is

quite melodic - but it's not good for dancing, Oasis. I've got a room here [in

Toronto], I stick on the new Oasis and it's impossible to dance to. Really!"

- MICK JAGGER (Rolling Stones)

"The brothers Gallagher have managed to stop spitting at each other and the world

just long enough to provide us with a work chock full of pop posturing so infectious

we almost forget how much we hate them."

- JAY BLUMENFIELD

"Oasis basically copy Beatles-Stones 60's-ish sort of things, but I don't think

they're anywhere near either of us....I wish 'em luck. I have nothing against them.

But it's all a blur to me."

- KEITH RICHARDS (Rolling Stones)

"The one who writes the songs - Noel - he's OK. But they don't have that much

depth. The other bloke's just a pain. I don't think they need him. The one who writes

the songs - he can sing them just as well. Maybe it's because he's his brother that he

has to keep him in the band"

- GEORGE HARRISON (Beatles)

"Wonderwall connected as an enormous bonding song for a whole generation of

people who'd been brought up on Ecstasy, raves and dance music and felt alienated

by everything around them? And all they ever wanted was to be in a room with a

whole lot of other people who felt the same way did. Wonderwall glued them

together. It became something they could hug each other to and it became an anthem

in every pub, club, disco, school playground and old people's home throughout the

land"

- Steve Sutherland

"For Bonehead, Guigsy and Alan White, they're playing on the same team as

Maradona and Pele."

- PAOLO HEWITT

"Blur wanted to have that battle. They lost. They won the battle, they lost the war."

- ALAN McGEE

"Noel was never a teenager. He's always been thirtysomething."

- CLINT BOON (of the Inspiral Carpets)

What other artistes have said about Oasis:

- Paul McCartney was flattered when Oasis was compared to The Beatles.

- REM have seen Oasis perform live and said that oasis is a great band live

- After receiving the award for 'Best Rock Act' at the Europe MTV Music Awards

1996, D'Arcy of the Smashing Pumpkins said, "I'm sorry, I really feel bad ya know,

coz err, Oasis should have won this coz they're the best band since the Beatles. But

thanks a lot anyway."