Matthew Ramsey Quotes
It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Being evil is easy.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.
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1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.
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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
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I've always been a night owl.
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I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
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It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.
