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Our 15 favourite Noel Gallagher quotes to mark his 50th birthday

Happy birthday, Noel Gallagher! The great man turns 50 on Monday and to celebrate here are 15 of his funniest quotes.

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“Liam is … rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

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“I had built for me a customised 1967 Mark II Jaguar convertible at a cost of £110,000, and I haven’t got a driving license. It’s useless to me.”

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“People say we’re the Rolling Stones and that Blur are the Beatles. We’re the Stones and the Beatles. They’re the fucking Monkees!”

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“The Priory? Why would you check into a hospital to pay somebody £4,000 an hour to tell you things that really you should already know about yourself. Give me the money, I’ll sort it out for you.”

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“There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.”

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“It got to the point after Cigarettes and Alcohol came out they wanted to release another [single], but you can’t have five off a debut album. They’d have to get me a fucking Lear jet. Because if Michael Jackson is doing five singles an album and I am, he’s got a monkey and a Lear jet. I don’t want a monkey but I want a fucking aeroplane.”

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“Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”

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“I went to Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella’s party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, ‘Do you watch Brookside?’”

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“All I would like to say is that I’m rich and you’re not.”

As you can see from the invite above, Noel celebrated his 50th with a cocaine themed bash, which seems entirely appropriate.

Spare a thought for little brother Liam, who was apparently not invited.

Which reminds us, Liam’s pretty good for a quote as well. Click here to read 20 of the best.