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.
FINNEASI 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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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’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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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 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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