Brian Fallon Quotes

I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.

My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and yet I find it impossible not to think of myself as a dad-in-training when I listen to it.

What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.