Noel Gallagher Quotes

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn't fit in with society.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

I'm punk, but I love gold.

When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.