M. Ward Quotes
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
Quotes to Explore
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Imperfection is perfection.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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The world of Debussy is a seductive oasis, and it is hard to leave it after spending many days immersed in its atmosphere. Playing Debussy-or any other composer with a strong and idiosyncratic personality-affects not only one's cast of mind but the physical disposition as well, the way the muscles work and the fingers come into contact with the ivories.
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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 records that I make.
