Jay DeMarcus Quotes

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.

The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!

Adele ain't soul.

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

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

I love pop music. I listen to it; I think you can hear it in my songwriting and my album. I'd definitely say it's country-pop music, but it's country first.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

My life is truly pop country.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.

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

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of the blues is in there, too.

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a little rock and a little pop.

I would definitely say I'm a country girl at heart; I wanted to make sure that I established my music first at Country just because that is the artist that I am. But it wanted to spill over into pop too, which I don't have a problem with at all and I think is awesome because it spreads it to a broader audience of people.

Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.

The lines have definitely blurred between country and pop music.

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.

I don't think I could make a pop album.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.