There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
FINNEASWhat 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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 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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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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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