Jay DeMarcus Quotes
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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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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.
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Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.
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The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.
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I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.
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To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
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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 no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.
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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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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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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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I've never in my life had a cavity. Not one!
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I want to be a part of bringing more visibility to the Christian music genre and give it some platforms that it may not have had before. I feel like, as blessed as we've been with Rascal Flatts, I might be able, through some of my own connections and avenues, to give them some visibility in arenas they've never had before.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Country's opened its boundaries so wide that it embraces everything, and it gives everybody this new freedom to create now.
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So many people have stood behind me for so long.
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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 cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.