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A few of our favorite recent Noel Gallagher quotations

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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds flap into the Joint for a May 22 show.
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On Alt-J: “Do you know that track by Alt-J, “Left Hand Free”? That is a great track. But Alt-J can f*ck right off as far as I’m concerned. It’s a great tune, and I paid 79 pence for it, but I am in no way a fan of Alt-J. One of them’s got a mustache, and that’s unacceptable.” (February, Rolling Stone)

On Spotify: “I don’t Spotify. I don’t agree with streaming. I prefer to buy my music rather than rent it.” (February, Stereogum)

On music: “I don’t make art, I make pop music. I’m not saying pop music is not art: fundamentally, it is art, because you’re creating something from nothing. I mean in the flowery sense. I wouldn’t consider myself to be an artist like, f*cking, I don’t know, Kate Bush, Thom Yorke. (February, The Quietus)

On album titles: “How many great album titles are there in the history of rock? I can think of about f*cking six. The rest are all sh*te, aren’t they? As I’ve said a million times, you’ve got to go pretty far to find a worse title than (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” (March, Huffington Post)

On Tidal: “I thought that the people on the stage might want to be a little bit aware that they don’t look like Jay Z’s minions. … I think ultimately that the spiel they came out with, it was like, ‘Do these people think they’re the f*ckin’ Avengers? They’re going to save the f*ckin’ [world].’” (May, Rolling Stone)

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds with Rusty Maples. May 22, 9 p.m., $35-$150. The Joint, 702-693-5222.

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