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.
FINNEASI 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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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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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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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 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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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