I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
FINNEASA 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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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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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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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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 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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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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