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.
FINNEASTo me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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 am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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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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I 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.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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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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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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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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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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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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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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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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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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