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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
M. Ward
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M. Ward
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 4
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Ventura County
California
Matthew Stephen Ward
Matt Ward
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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There's at least one fist bump every interview.
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I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
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It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.
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My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
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As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.
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