Jay DeMarcus Quotes

I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

I have been very blessed with some great songs.

I wasn't sure what would happen to me after 'The Voice.' I was just excited to make music.

The last time I put out 'Raw,' that boosted me up in the underground to one of the top underground artists who was making moves and touring around the world.

To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.

Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier.

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

At the end of the day, I was getting really close to quitting. I was starting to accept that maybe I'm just going to be a SoundCloud singer, and that's when Dreamville came and saved me.

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that years later we'd be selling out shows.

I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.

You start out with your eyes wide open, and you've got dreams, and we worked really, really hard, and ours came true. So - and we're fortunate enough to keep putting out number one records, and we're fortunate enough to get out there and keep playing, and we truly have a blast.

I've been trying my whole life to get to this point, and it's finally here. It's an amazing record, and it happens to be with Stone Temple Pilots. I mean, what could be better than that?