Noel Gallagher Quotes

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.

I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except for some of the live shows. Everything I did was original, and I wrote it from the heart.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.