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.
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 am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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 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.
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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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I never get tired of writing about love.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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 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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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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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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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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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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 need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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