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.
FINNEASIn my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
More Finneas Quotes
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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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 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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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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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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