American - Musician | April 26, 1971 -
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
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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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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 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.
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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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A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary 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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I've never in my life had a cavity. Not one!
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To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
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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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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.
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I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.
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