Jay DeMarcus Quotes
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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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You need to continue to find ways to engage fans to keep them excited about what you're doing.
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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?''
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When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.
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You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.
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Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how I get motivated.
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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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I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.
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My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.
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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.
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It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'
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When you sit there, and you sing the chorus - and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms - then everybody knows you've stumbled onto something.
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We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.
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We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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I love watching new acts find their footing. It's fun to watch them early on in their careers and get a gut feeling about who's going to be a superstar.
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We make music for our fans, and that's what we'll continue to do.
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My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am.
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I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.
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I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.
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We've been very blessed in our career.
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I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.
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If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.