I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
FINNEASI’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
More Finneas Quotes
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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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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I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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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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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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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 really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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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 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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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