Brian Fallon

Brian Fallon

28-Feb-1980


United States


Musician

Brian Fallon is an American songwriter and songwriter. He is best known as a leading instrumentalist, guitarist, and lead singer of the rock band The Gaslight Anthem, with whom he recorded five studio albums.

QUOTES BY Brian Fallon


Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?

I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.

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.

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.

On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.

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!'

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.

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.

Fans look up to us, and that's creepy.

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