Quotes About Music

I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.

When I was 12, I didn't know about Nirvana or Oasis or any of those people. I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Gershwin.

I grew up listening to Oasis and The Verve; English music was huge in my house.

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

I liked bands like Oasis and The Prodigy.

I worked behind the record counter at Woolworths when I was 16. It was when Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' came out and The Verve were getting big. I'd have probably worked my way up to store manager if I'd have stuck around.

I was a big Oasis fan.

You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

We don't want to be as big as Oasis!

In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time.

I thought Oasis were great.

I'm a big, big, big Oasis fan.

Oasis allowed me to use lyrics from 'Wonderwall,' so I'm super gassed to re-version the track and get it to a new audience, as it's a classic.

I'm a huge Obituary fan.

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.

I have again decided to leave my cultural obligations and music to enter the political arena this time to contribute with all my force to ending, once and for all, the PASOK state.