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.
FINNEASIt’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
More Finneas Quotes
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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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.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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