I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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.
More Finneas Quotes
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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 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 you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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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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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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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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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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.
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