Frases de M. Ward

Matthew Stephen Ward, conocido artísticamente como M. Ward, es un músico y compositor estadounidense que combina elementos del blues, el country, el folk y el rock n' roll para crear una de las obras más personales y sugerentes dentro de la escena alternativa estadounidense.

Aunque nacido en Ventura County , el músico reside desde finales de los noventa en la ciudad de Portland .

Ward, que habitualmente utiliza la técnica del fingerpicking para dotar de un sonido añejo y característico a su guitarra, es conocido por su peculiar voz- entre agónica y susurrante- y sus producciones atípicas, inspiradas en la sonoridad clásica de los pioneros de los géneros canónicos americanos.

En 2006, Ward grabado a dúo con la actriz Zooey Deschanel, una colaboración que dio lugar a la formación de la banda She & Him. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. octubre 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
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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)