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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.
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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
Brian Fallon
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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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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.
Brian Fallon -
I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
Brian Fallon -
When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
Brian Fallon -
For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.
Brian Fallon -
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
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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.
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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 -
Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.
Brian Fallon -
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.
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We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.
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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
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We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.
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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 -
I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
Brian Fallon -
Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.
Brian Fallon -
Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy who got out.
Brian Fallon -
When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.
Brian Fallon
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I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.
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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 -
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 -
I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
Brian Fallon