Matthew Ramsey Quotes

Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay.

My focus is on music. I want to be able to see the world and meet fans everywhere. I think that's the priority for me and I literally couldn't be doing anything else.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

All I do is make music.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

I think that was one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to be so focused on soccer that it became my whole life.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

Music is pretty much all I do.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.