Noel Gallagher Quotes

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.