Jay DeMarcus Quotes

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.

The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

There's one place that I've always known I wanted to be, and that is on country radio.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.