Noel Gallagher Quotes

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.

I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

I feel like pop and R&B are just my core.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

If I do something related to English music, it will be definitely in the direction of R&B and pop.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.