I 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.
FINNEASI 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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 think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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 don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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