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" Honestly, with pop and rock and things, artists are from all over the place, so they're kind of isolated. The city of Nashville helps create the camaraderie. Everyone moves there for the same reason. "

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" It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited. "

Matthew Ramsey

Easy

Business

Down

" It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there. "

" 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. "

" Fashion is a way to separate yourself - to make a statement about who you are and that you're different. "

" When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can relate to that. "

Matthew Ramsey

Band

" We love writing hit songs. That thrills us. "

Matthew Ramsey

Hit

Writing

" When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can. "

" 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. "

" The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were. "

" 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. "

" That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things. "

" 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?' "

Matthew Ramsey

Sometimes

You

" We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes. "

" 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. "

Matthew Ramsey

Radio

People

" '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. "

" Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.' "

" 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. "

" You definitely want your own fans, but you also want the support of your peers and the people you work with. "

" 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. "

Matthew Ramsey

Big

Support

" We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit. "

" The more successful we get, the more opportunities come our way. "

Matthew Ramsey

Way

Opportunities

" I definitely wear a lot of Tom Ford jackets on stage. "

" I'm a huge Lionel Richie fan, and sometimes we actually listen to Lionel Richie on the bus. "

" It's pretty cool to see, like, from town to town, how different the crowds are. "

Matthew Ramsey

Town

See

" 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. "

" 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 truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal. "

" 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. "

Matthew Ramsey

Performance

Place

" A band in our position, we have a first impression to make. We don't want to come out of the gate and make people sad. I think we consciously made that choice to keep it happy and up. "

" We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take this kind of seriously, because people seem to like it.' "