107 Quotes by Jay DeMarcus

After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.

When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

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.

The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.

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.