When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
FINNEASIf 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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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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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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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.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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 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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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