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.’
FINNEASDefinitely 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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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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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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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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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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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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