M. Ward Quotes

Matthew Stephen Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Portland, Oregon. Ward's solo work is a mixture of folk and blues-inspired Americana analog recordings; he has released nine albums since 1999, primarily through 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1973
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“I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas…”

Quoted in "Time" is right for songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze at Reuters (9 January 2009) http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE5090MC20090110
Context: 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.

“When you're absolute beginners,
It's a panoramic view”

"For Beginners"
Hold Time (2009)
Context: When you're absolute beginners,
It's a panoramic view,
From Her Majesty, Mt. Zion,
And the Kingdom is for you.

“The songwriting style, to me, is superior… there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is.”

On songwriting styles of the post-World War II era, in an interview with Bob Boilen on All Songs Considered (17 November 2006) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15961159 (NPR)
Context: The songwriting style, to me, is superior... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

“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.”

On his album Post-War and the postwar music of the late 1940s and 50s, as quoted in Vanity Fair (August 2006)

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