OASIS QUOTE

Rip It Up, Issue 224, 1 April 1996, Page 12

OASIS QUOTE

' A NEW SONG: “The lyrics to ‘My Big Mouth’ go, l ln my big mouth you can fly < a plane’. Some of the people in the press will love that.” BRIT AWARDS: “The awards are all voted for by \7 “I can’t sit still for a minute. I lost my freedom as soon as I idiots, dickheads and ponytails. They’re only I learned t 0 write sonsrm tied to that guitar now forever. «?nprial if thpv’rp vntpd for hv thp npnnlp ” X Tm never gonna get a holiday ever in my entire life because > special IT they re voted Tor by the people. . yy I'm gonna have that monkey on my back.” 7 'WRITING ROCK ANTHEMS?/™ MICHAEL HUTCHENCE AT THE BRIT AWARDS: “As I get older it’ll probably VHas-beens shouldn’t be giving awards to gonna-be’s.” change. 111 become like Van Z BLUR: “The thing that gets me is, people will say Morrison and become a right . they’re The Beatles and we’re The Stones. The miserable old fucker.” 7 fact of the matter is, we’re The Beatles and The

Stones and they’re the fucking Monkees, man.” “Actually the big dream is to be U2 ~————< — not a little Brit-pop phenomenon with ] PAUL WELLER: “It was probably an honthe right clothes and trendy haircuts I our for him to play one of my songs for which is what we are now.” / a start. Let alone do it on TV.” /BIGGER THAN JESUS, THE BEATLES OR THE STONES?: “I’ve only done two albums k. so I’d say I’m as good as any of them after their second albums.” j “If you ask me where I’ll be after my eighth album in comparison to the Beatles, then I \ they’ll piss all over me. Probably.” 7 y “ V/ WRITER’S BLOCK: “I hadn’t written anything for / / LYRIC WRITING: “It really bugs about two or three months. I thought that was it. I me. We need a Morrissey in But then I wrote four songs last week. There’s only I \ this band, but he’s too fat.” A three Number Ones and one Number Two.” )

GUITAR HEROES: “Who wants to be Jimmy Page? I’d rather be George Harrison and write ‘Something’ than be Jimmy Page and go fucking ‘diddle-uh-diddle-uh-bidddle-uh-buh.’ That’s too much like hard work, innit?” GEORGE HARRISON ON OASIS: “Relative to some of the stuff that’s been going on for the last so many years, I think they’re pretty good. But relevant to the music being made in the ‘6os by the '6os bands, I think they're pretty average. They're not , bad but we've heard it all before." “The thing that bothers me more than anything about Oasis are the comments the blokes keep making when they’re on television. Did you see the Brit Awards? They were saying stuff on there where they just seemed a bit over the top!"

“Everyone’s dispensable! Might even fire meself one of these

OASIS PRODUCER’S COMPARING MORNING GLORYTO NEVERMIND. “Owen Morris is fat, Welsh and has a tendency to wear women’s clothing so I wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth."

MEETING PAUL MCCARTNEY: “I was really fucking drunk at the time. I think we just talked about music, ya know what I mean? And any advice? Oh no, absolutely not. Except, ‘Don’t marry a Japanese woman’. I’m joking of course. No I’ll tell you what we talked about how weird it is to be in a band that never gets to see your own band perform live. He said, ‘Does it piss you off?’ and I said, ‘Well you were in the Beatles, man!’ Imagine being in the Beatles and never seeing the Beatles.” “If J’d been knocked over by a taxi that night, I’d have died the happiest man in the world.”

BLUR: “The guitarist I’ve got a lot of time for. The drummer I’ve never met — I hear he’s a nice guy. The bass player and the singer — I hope the pair of them catch AIDS and die because I fucking hate them two.”

ORIGINALITY: “As long as the chief parts you put together make something new — which I believe it does — then I think that’s all right. What the fuck were the Beatles doing if not ripping off the Shi relies when they started.”

THE BEATLES REVIVAL: “I’m responsible for that. I’ve opened the floodgates for them. My lawyers will be onto McCartney’s. I was terrified when I met him. I didn’t have anything to say. But it was good when he taught me the chords to ‘Come Together’. Piece of piss. I won’t be doing a duet with him, I’m too big forthat now. I’m not doing that with any Tom, Dick and Harry.”