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.
FINNEASOur mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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.’
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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 don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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