Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
FINNEASI think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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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 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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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 know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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 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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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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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’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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