Jay DeMarcus Quotes

There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''

Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts

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• I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the shows and keep buying the records and we keep having success on country radio.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Records
  • Industry
  • Country Music

• We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me, to build that foundation with our kids so they at least went to church.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Church
  • Foundation
  • Bible Belt

• We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Country
  • Pop Music
  • Boy-band

• I love my time with my kids.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Kids
  • I Love
  • My Time

• I think it happens with every career when you've been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, 'Oh my gosh, we've got to change some things up.'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Career
  • Change
  • Cruise Control

• That's what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass - and there's no reason to call it a band if you're not gonna have the guys in the band playing on the records.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Records

• We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Fans
  • Being
  • Touring

• It's such a wonderful thing for me to be able to be in there and make music with people that I love, first of all. It's something that I'm so passionate about.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Wonderful Thing

• It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there's such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it's nearly impossible to do that.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Business
  • Projects
  • Basis

• I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me. And I guarantee you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more often than not. So it sustains me.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Praying
  • Fortunate
  • Guarantee

• Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Wrote

• I remember when 'I'm Moving On' came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, 'Man, this could be for real.' That was the first time it dawned on me what we had.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Response
  • I Remember
  • First Time

• We've gotten to do so many great things throughout the years. We've gotten to meet presidents. We've been able to go to so many wonderful awards shows and meet so many great celebrities.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Awards
  • Celebrities
  • Presidents

• When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Artists
  • Exciting
  • Fresh

• I draw inspiration from everywhere, whether it's country, R&B, gospel.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Country
  • Inspiration
  • Gospel

• We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Art
  • Night
  • Learning

• So many people in this world get up every day and go to their nine-to-five job they hate for 12 months a year for 30 years. I kind of do a self-check and evaluation to realize I'm very blessed and grateful to be where I am.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Blessed

• The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also having to listen to opinions, and very valid opinions, of my bandmates. So, sometimes, I'll have to have conversations with them as a producer and then conversations with them as a bandmate.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Band
  • Opinions
  • Conversations

• I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Message

• A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Opportunity
  • Musicians
  • Heroes

• We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Records
  • Hoping
  • Flop

• I was raised in church, and we let our kids know who Jesus is.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Kids
  • Church
  • Jesus

• People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We always said, 'It's not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It's about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Souls
  • Country Music

• I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Rock
  • Child
  • Grew Up