The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
FINNEASI feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
More Finneas Quotes
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to.
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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