Jay DeMarcus Quotes
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I love making records. That's my favorite part of the whole process. And I love playing live, but certainly getting the music on a disc that's going to live forever and be there forever, just every little detail drives me crazy.
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I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.
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My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.
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It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.
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With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.
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Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.
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After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.
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I've never in my life had a cavity. Not one!
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It's so much fun to have vocal groups out on the road because we get to see them do their thing, and at the end of the night, we come back, and we all do a big thing together for the encore with 'American Band.'
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That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.
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I am living proof - and I know this for a fact - that you can find encouragement and strength through the message that's in Christian music, because I've lived it.
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We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.
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So many people have stood behind me for so long.
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We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
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People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.
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I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.
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You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.
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My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way.
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I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'
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It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.
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There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.
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There were so many years that were going by at a lightning speed that it was so hard to kinda put our heads around what was happening to us.
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To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
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Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.