Brian Fallon Quotes
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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!'
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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.
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There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.
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Fans look up to us, and that's creepy.
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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.
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You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.
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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.
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I sure wish I'd written 'One' by U2.
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You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.
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I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.
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I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
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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.
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I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
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We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.
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Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.
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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.
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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.
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Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
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I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.
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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.