Jay DeMarcus Quotes

Nothing is more exciting than being around new talent when it emerges.

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I'm going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture. I'm in hot pursuit, always.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

It's hard to make music when you're not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. And music excites me because it puts me in a mind state, whatever that may be.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.

I like the inspiration of the first take.