Top 18 M. Ward Quotes

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.

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

I’ve worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

I have a very strong belief in God.

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

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

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 a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand – an acoustic guitar, and that’s all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney‘s harmonies using the guitar.

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.

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?’

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

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.

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

When I first started making music, it was learning other people‘s songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

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 in the passenger‘s seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I’ve learned a lot from that perspective.

I wouldn’t want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn’t occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I’m interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

There’s a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don’t totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

I definitely don’t see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.