Jay DeMarcus Quotes

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?

I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business.

It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song.

It's very, very exciting for me to hear my songs on the radio and to play shows and have people know the words.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

It has been a dream of mine to be a singer, and now I'm living this dream, singing some beautiful songs and winning people's hearts with my voice.

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

I will continue making music, whether or not I get opportunities in films. I know I have fans who like to listening to me sing.

Of course I think we're most thankful for 'Shake It,' because it's given us a lot of opportunities, helped us pay some bills and brought us pretty far in life. And it's fun to perform live.

I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

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

Our real business is the people who come to see us play and want to hear us play, so I have a very active career.

Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.