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I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
M. Ward
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M. Ward
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 4
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Ventura County
California
Matthew Stephen Ward
Matt Ward
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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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I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
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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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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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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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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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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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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
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There's at least one fist bump every interview.
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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 remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.
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My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the same time, listen to it as closely as you can, and listen to where the song wants to go.
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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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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.
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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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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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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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In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.
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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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