Jay DeMarcus Quotes

I like the idea of blending genres.

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

All of the genres are just blending now, which I think is another super-cool thing.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

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.

It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.

The problem in this country is people gravitate toward one genre, and that's what they embrace. I don't understand that. If you hit me with Bell Biv Devoe meets country, well, I like the sound of that concept.

My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.