I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
FINNEASI don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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A 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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