Jay DeMarcus Quotes

I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first started with the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Those people that really pioneered are heroes of mine.

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• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

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• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

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• What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.

  

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• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

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• Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

  

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• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

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• Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

  

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• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  

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• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

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• I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

  

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• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

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• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

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• I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

  

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  

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• America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

  

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• I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.

  

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• The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

  

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• He deserves it, he is a fantastic player. He has won everything, apart from the Champions League, which I am praying he can do,

  

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• I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

  

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• I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.

  

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• I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first started with the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Those people that really pioneered are heroes of mine.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Church
  • Heroes
  • Christian Music