If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
FINNEASI idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
More Finneas Quotes
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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 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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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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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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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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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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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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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 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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