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." - Meaning and context.">
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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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.

— M. Ward

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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." in the context of "On his album Post-War and the postwar music of the late 1940s and 50s, as quoted in Vanity Fair (August 2006)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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M. Ward

About M. Ward

Matthew Stephen Ward (born October 4, 1973), known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. He also works with Zooey Deschanel as the group She & Him.