To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
FINNEASI 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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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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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written 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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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 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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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 am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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