Noel Gallagher Quotes

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Decadence is wonderful.

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

The love of Luxury grows by what it feeds upon.

I don't believe I have a playboy life.

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.