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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More Finneas Quotes
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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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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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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 was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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