Matthew Ramsey Quotes

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

I'm a commercial-minded songwriter. I'm here to make a living and be on the radio.

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

When I first got into the major label system, they were like, 'Hey, you're great - now write with a million people so we can get songs.' That was something I hadn't done before, and the songwriters I was working with had worked on some massive numbers - like 'True Colours.' One of the guys wrote 'Livin On A Prayer.'

I want every song on it to be a hit.

The end game is always a hit song.

I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.'

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose.

I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.

The only thing I think of is the next hit record.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.