Jay DeMarcus Quotes

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I think we've always been better live.

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

The first time I went crowd surfing was heaven.

I appreciate the intimacy of a 300-to-500-person venue; it's the sweet spot for me.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

Typically in Korea when I perform I have a full band, a ten-piece band, and that's a completely different monster in itself to prepare and rehearse.

Oh, man, the first concert I ever went to was Boston and Sammy Hagar, and it was absolutely incredible. I was just blown away by both bands, and, once again, it was my first concert, so that made it super, super special.

I play some places where the people are right at my feet, and you can see their expressions. It's kind of more like playing in your living room. It's almost easier to play in front of thousands of people in an arena scene, in some ways, but you don't get the personal contact.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

It's awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it's so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.