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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
More Finneas Quotes
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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