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.
FINNEASThe 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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 me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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I have nothing against reverb.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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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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