Matthew Ramsey Quotes

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

I was always afraid to write music.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?