I have nothing against reverb.
FINNEASI don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
More Finneas Quotes
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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 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.
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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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.
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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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