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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
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I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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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.
