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M. Ward

(1973) Singer-songwriter United States

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M. Ward is a singer-songwriter from the United States, best known for Pool of Radiance.

Quick Facts About M. Ward

Born: October 4, 1973
Nationality: United States
Profession: Singer-songwriter
Notable works: Pool of Radiance

About M. Ward

Matthew Stephen "M." Ward is an American singer-songwriter, Grammy nominated producer and guitarist from Glendale, California. Ward's solo work is a mixture of folk and blues-inspired Americana analog recordings. He has released 12 studio albums since 1999, primarily through the independent label Merge Records. In addition to his solo work, he is a member of indie pop duo She & Him and folk-rock supergroup Monsters of Folk, and also participates in recording, producing, and playing with multiple other artists.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by M. Ward

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff.…

Beatles

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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…

Hooked

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I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being…

Appreciate

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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the…

Ends

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The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

Capture

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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I…

Fun

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Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can…

Dreams

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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

Guitarist

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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

Certain

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The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist…

Art

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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have…

Coming out

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I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these…

Acoustic

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Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

Listeners

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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

Heard

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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

Dream

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When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art…

Art

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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions…

Adventure

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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell…

Able

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I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that.…

Black

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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or…

Explicit

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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

Favorite places

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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…

America

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I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great…

Balance

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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…

Art

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It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

Hard

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M. Ward by topic

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