People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
FINNEASI 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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 if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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, I grew up very self-taught.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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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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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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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 came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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