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.
FINNEASThere’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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 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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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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