The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
FINNEASYou know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
More Finneas Quotes
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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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.
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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 don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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