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There's at least one fist bump every interview.
M. Ward
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M. Ward
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 4
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Ventura County
California
Matthew Stephen Ward
Matt Ward
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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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 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.
M. Ward
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.
M. Ward
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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It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
M. Ward
From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.
M. Ward
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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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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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.
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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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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
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I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.
M. Ward
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.
M. Ward
Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. Ward
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.
M. Ward
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?
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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.
M. Ward
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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