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I've never in my life had a cavity. Not one!
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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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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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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Christian music was such a huge foundation for me, even as a kid, and I grew to love Christian music not only because of the musicianship, which I thought was extraordinary, but because of the message in it. It was such a huge building block of who I was and who I would become.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
So many people have stood behind me for so long.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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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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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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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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To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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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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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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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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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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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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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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.'
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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 -
Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts