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.
FINNEASI’m just obsessed with music I guess.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I 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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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 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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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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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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I never get tired of writing about love.
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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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