Brian Fallon Quotes

I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I learned a lot from working with and watching Knxwledge, seeing how he produces non-stop. He doesn't dwell too long on stuff. He's very simple, using only about two or three elements. I like that in production. Sometimes it doesn't take more than three drums, a melody, the vocal, looping a sample or whatever, just as minimal as possible.

I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much anything that's a strumming, string type thing.

You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.