All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
FINNEASThe 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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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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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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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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 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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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 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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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