Matt White – HuffPost 9.22.10

Mike Ragogna: Is there any advice that you’d like to give to up-and-coming artists?

Matt White: The only advice is to just keep on writing songs. It’s so true that you’re one song away from breaking. You just have to keep on writing, and play with every kind of musician you can possibly play with. I’ve been in the most bizarre situations playing music, and it’s taught me so much, even in my guitar playing. I don’t really play guitar and I have no theory on guitar, but I was taught by street musicians in Washington Square park, who just would sit out there and jam, and who knows what their stories were? Some were seventy-year-old hippies, who had just been there forever, and some were music students from NYU. Just play with anyone and everyone you can play with.