Matthew Ramsey Quotes
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We don't take ourselves too seriously. We're just friends that like to goof off.
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We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.
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I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair.
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'Old Dominion' is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.
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Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.
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Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different place. And I'm really proud of our performance in the studio on that one.
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We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.
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This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.
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I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.
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There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.
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We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit.
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We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously, and I think that kind of helps us stay focused on what's important - and that is the music, our fans, and our families.
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I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.
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That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.
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The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.
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We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.
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For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.
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SiriusXM has been an unbelievable way for us to share music. Songs move a lot faster there than they do on terrestrial, so hopefully we can continue to partner with satellite radio as a way to share as much music as possible with our fans.
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We love writing hit songs. That thrills us.
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In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.
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It's a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.
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It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there.
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We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.
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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?'