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We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.
Gary LeVox Rascal Flatts -
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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.
Gary LeVox Rascal Flatts -
With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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 -
I've never in my life had a cavity. Not one!
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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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 -
After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
So many people have stood behind me for so long.
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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.
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.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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
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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.'
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?'
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
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 -
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