Noel Gallagher Quotes

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

I'm a hard-luck kind of guy. Usually, things that I hope for don't go my way, so I'm very used to that. In fact, I expect it.

I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

Get used to disappointment.

I'm not one of those people who walks away and says, "That's a lot better than I thought it was going to be." I said, "No, this is as bad as I thought it was going to be, I didn't like it. I didn't want to talk to anybody."

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.