Matthew Ramsey Quotes

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

You have to get the attention of the audience. You have to make sure they know you are starting. You have to achieve a rapport with them on the very first chord.

With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.

To get the best idea of who I am, I would probably say listen to my first single, 'The Way I Talk.'

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

Some people are caricatures of themselves, and some people keep people coming back and keep themselves growing. Otherwise, the fans would get bored.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

I wasn’t like 'Oh, I'm going to marry 50 Cent...' I mean, seriously. But I did like him. He's very sweet and antithetical to what you'd think of him.

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

The first word about you is that you received this life.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.