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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.
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Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.
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I'm a pretty private person.
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You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
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I don't really hate a lot of songs, but I think Weezer has put out some songs I really hate because they've also put out a lot of songs I really like.
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When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.
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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.
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I was never a fan of open tunings, because some people will do that and fumble around. But that's not my jam.
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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.'
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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.
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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?
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It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
Brian Fallon
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When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
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It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'
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Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'
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I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.
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I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.
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It's a beautiful thing, to start over.
Brian Fallon
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The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
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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.
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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.
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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