Creativity Quote by Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher is doing what he’s always done best: converting a half-serious aesthetic complaint into a manifesto. The line lands because it treats “cool” like a hard law of physics, not a flimsy taste preference. Guitars aren’t just instruments here; they’re stage weapons, symbols of a band’s right to take up space. Keyboards, in Noel’s telling, are functional, hunched, inward-facing. Heads down. Work, not swagger. He’s policing silhouette as much as sound.

The joke, of course, is that it’s knowingly ridiculous. “There has never been a cool keyboard player” is classic Gallagher overreach: a broad, absolute claim designed to bait an argument while also ending it. Then comes the escape hatch: “apart from Elton John.” That exception isn’t random; it’s a backhanded respect for a performer who makes keyboards theatrical rather than technical. Elton stands, preens, sells the song with his whole body. He doesn’t disappear behind the instrument, he turns it into a prop.

The subtext is Britpop’s long hangover: the 90s premium on guitar authenticity, the suspicion that keys mean sheen, softness, or - worst of all - dance music. It’s also Noel defending Oasis’s brand of laddish immediacy: big choruses, visible labor, no nerd posture. Underneath the snark sits a producer’s anxiety about control. Keyboards invite texture, harmony, ambiguity. Guitars keep the myth simple: you can see the noise being made.