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Brian Fallon

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[Wikipedia] Brian Michael Fallon is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main lyricist of the rock band the Gaslight Anthem, with whom he has recorded six studio albums. He was also a member of the duo the Horrible Crowes, alongside the Gaslig

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I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

Anthem

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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…

Band

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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…

Believe

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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…

Band

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I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I…

Coffee

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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…

Indie

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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…

Band

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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…

Around

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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…

Go

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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can…

Myself

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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…

Big

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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,…

Audience

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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…

Crazy

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

Creepy

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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.

Describe

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I sure wish I'd written 'One' by U2.

Sure

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We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

Invent

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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

Jersey

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I've spent my life playing music.

Life

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I don't have a 'Born to Run' in me.

Birth

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There is redemption in every song.

Redemption

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Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.

Become

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The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

Clash

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There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

Beatles

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I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

How

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

Bus

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The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.

Gaslight

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You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.

Become

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Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

Always

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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…

Hate

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Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy…

Hero

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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,…

Learn

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I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born…

Born

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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…

Anything

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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…

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…

Dark

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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…

Believe

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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,…

Band

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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…

American

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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…

Amazing

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