Jay DeMarcus Quotes

Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.

If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

English music is white - it evades everything.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

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.

It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire career to get a little respect from people who don't understand where I come from.

I don't think country music needs saving from anything.

For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

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

I suppose when I was growing up, it was all about fitting into a box or fitting into a category. You know, looking like I listened to hip-hop, or looking like I listened to grime. You'd see someone and go, 'Oh, look at that person. He's wearing that or that; he listens to punk rock.'

Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it's all pop to me.

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

As a race car driver, you kind of get stereotyped into, 'Man, you like country' - or you got to say you like country. I do like a lot of country. But I'm all over the board.