Matthew Ramsey Quotes
Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'
