M. Ward Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Favorite Places, World, France

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• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

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  Elements, Surprise, Element Of Surprise

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• I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

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  Writing, Kind, Painting

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• I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song, when you're in a good mood, it's going to put you in a better mood. If you happen to be bummed-out, you're going to feel maybe a little more bummed-out and better at the same time. At any time in my life, his music has had meaning and value to me. If a song can shape-shift in that way, that's a sign of success.

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  Song, Shapes, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track.

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  Notebook, Song, Writing

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• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

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  Happiness, Long, Tickets

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

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  Mean, Sound, Guitarist

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• If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.

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  Song, Thinking, Voice

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

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  Song, Believe, Personal Values

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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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  Men, Balance, Enough

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

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  Luxury, People, Performing Music

  "M. Ward Going Solo Once Again" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com.

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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

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  Sound, Way, Digital

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

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  Grandparent, Mexican, Mexico

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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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  Watches, Want, Tvs

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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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  Song, Philosophy, Records

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

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  Guitar, Trying, Harmony

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

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  Song, Matter, Matching

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Pieces, Alive, World

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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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 that I had never seen or heard of before. I wrote a lot of bad high-school poetry, just like pretty much everyone did, I think, at some point. For me, the inspiration never really stopped.

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  Art, Inspiration, School

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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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. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

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  Ideas, Guitar, Interesting

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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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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  Growing Up, Memories, Sunday

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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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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  Song, Years, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Song, Listening, Age

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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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 to the song and the initial inspiration.

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  Song, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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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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  Song, Couple, Order

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