I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
FINNEASI’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
More Finneas Quotes
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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 have nothing against reverb.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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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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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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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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 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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