Brian Fallon Quotes

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.