Brian Fallon Quotes

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

I never thought radio would fizzle out.

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

MTV ruined music for us.

Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I think there was a big hip-hop takeover, and pop music, it became mechanical and computer-y.

After the Jonas Brothers, I was like, 'What is next?'

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.