Quotes by Brian Fallon - Page 2

I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Asking Questions
Start People Know
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If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Anthem
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When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Truths
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You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Brooklyn
Jeans
Target
Worn
Staple
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I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!
Brian Fallon / Singer
Envy
Anybody
Earned
Gig
Jack
Worked
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We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Insulting
Pedestal
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At the end of the day, you can't reinvent yourself past a point, because you are you, and there are things that are inherently you that are always going to be there.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Inherently
Reinvent
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I'm from New Jersey, the Shore, and Asbury Park and all that goes with that. I wouldn't want to mess around with that. I like New Jersey. There are nice people here.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Jersey
Mess
New Jersey
Nice People
Shore
Park
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You get a realisation at some point in your career that whatever it is you do, you can no longer continue to do it. You just realise you can't put out the same records forever.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Realisation
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There can be a wrong time - it's happened to countless bands where they release their first record on a major label and never learned what they maybe should have learned on an indie.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Release
Wrong Time
Countless
Indie
Label
Major Label
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I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'
Brian Fallon / Singer
Ability
Carpenter
Satisfaction
Best Work Home
End Of The Day
Go Home
Houses
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A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm here.' You have to stay confident and positive that you're going to write something.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Block
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I had a five-year plan to get to 500-seat venues and tour by ourselves and fill a room everywhere we go. I figured we could make a living off that. As long as you buy nothing stupid, you'll be OK.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Venues
Figured
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We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Mess
Organs
Strings
Pianos
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I learn tons of John Frusciante's licks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm never going to play like the Chili Peppers, but I might use that if I've got a dub beat or reggae thing mixed with a soul thing.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Chili
Might
Peppers
Red
Reggae
Beat
Dub
John
Mixed
Tons
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I like movies and radios and Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey. That's what I like, and if people don't like that, well, literally you can go on iTunes, and there's hundreds of other bands you can listen to.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Itunes
Jersey
New Jersey
Springsteen
Movies People New
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Hundreds
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I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Billions
Blah
Righteous
Stance
Commercials
Sold
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I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Different Things
Outlets
Life Believe Long
Gotta
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When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'
Brian Fallon / Singer
Bunch
Family Members
Groceries
Members
Musician
Pity
Time Family People
Bought
Family Time People
Time People
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I'm on the phone with this guy, and he says to me, 'People compare you to Bruce Springsteen. I don't think you've written a song as good as 'Dancing in the Dark' or 'I'm on Fire.'' And all I could think was, 'Me neither!'
Brian Fallon / Singer
Compare
Dancing
Dark
Fire
Guy
Song
Springsteen
Good Me Song
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Phone
Neither
Says
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People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Cold
Cold War
Bombed
Fifties
Ideal
Sixties
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The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Instruments
Wind
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I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I was 14, I started there. Just played all the time. Every weekend I had a show, or every Thursday. Open-mic nights, the whole thing.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Coffee
Thursday
Weekend
Nights
Time People Where
Houses
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With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Hurt
Time Change Past
Avoid
Change Things
Change Time Long
Similar
Wreck
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I'd like to say I don't care, but I do. 'Cause when you put out a record, you try to do it for yourself first, and you want your audience to accept it, but you also want the press to accept it, too, because it validates what you do.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Audience
Don't Care
Accept
Yourself Your Care
Cause
Record
Press
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When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'
Brian Fallon / Singer
Blah
Slang
Springsteen
World See Know
Big Band
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Junior
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Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and we needed to grow as a band before we made that step. We needed to do it our way and not do it how it works for other people.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Labels
Waited
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I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you know? You're like 'Oh, all right! That's good!' We had a Number Three record. That's crazy! What's that about? That's exciting to me! I think that's good.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Number Three
Good Game Me
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I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Care
People
Play
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My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
Brian Fallon / Singer
Hung
Inspire
Pointing
Posters
Print
Seattle
Photo
Danny
Eddie
My Friend
Numbered
Signed
Tom
Tom Waits
Waits
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As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Anthem
Always Me Doing
Element
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When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Contrast
Photograph
Edit
Finish
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I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Mean
Song
Writing
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Punk
Life Trust Your
Arenas
Move On
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There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and other people tell you it's crazy. The second thing is the only people you really need to worry about are the people who love your music, not the people who speak badly about it.
Brian Fallon / Singer
What You Love
Love Music Your
Badly
Love Music Crazy
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I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Leonardo
Louvre
Touched
Unreal
Me Day Crazy
Effect
Everything Else
Saw
Me Crazy Day
Mona
Room
Painted
Shut
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When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Folk Music
Rooted
Folk
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One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Touched
Fender
Riff
Sudden
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Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'
Brian Fallon / Singer
Fuel
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It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.
Brian Fallon / Singer
Resolve
Topics
Pose
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