Words matter. These are the best Matthew Ramsey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think that’s one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it’s hard to find great songs.
There’s something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.
You definitely want your own fans, but you also want the support of your peers and the people you work with.
I think it’s natural for people to see a band and imagine themselves as part of that. That’s what I grew up fantasizing about, looking at posters of bands on my wall. There is an allure to a band.
The more successful we get, the more opportunities come our way.
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.
The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don’t try and chase what’s on the radio or what you think people want to hear.
When we come on the radio, people will go, ‘That’s Old Dominion,’ ’cause it’s a sound that can only be made by whatever the five of us make together.
Work hard at doing what you feel is right. Don’t be scared!
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.
It really wasn’t until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
Working with a company like LIDS just makes sense for us. Every night, we play a song we wrote that has now become a hit and was inspired by seeing so many of our fans wearing Snapbacks. Our fans are LIDS customers, and we are excited to partner up and bring them into the Old Dominion family.
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.
‘Still Writing Songs About You’ – that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.
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.
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.
I think that’s the great thing for us – we’re a band full of songwriters, and we’re capable of writing all kinds of songs.
There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I’m such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George Strait albums because the songwriting’s so strong.
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?’
It’s very rewarding to know that people respect what you do.
Fashion is a way to separate yourself – to make a statement about who you are and that you’re different.
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.
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.
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.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We’re just friends that like to goof off.
In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there’s a fear that you’ve forgotten how to do it.
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.
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.
‘Old Dominion’ is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.
There’s no shame in being a support act for anyone. It’s been extremely beneficial for us to be allowed onstage for any of the artists we’ve toured with, and we’ve gotten some big exposure from them sharing their crowds with us in the past.
