Demos Quotes

• Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

  Big Jim Sullivan

  Stones

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• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  Warren Zevon

  Albums, Firsts, Stage

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• DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Dust, Rarity

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• We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

  Tony Visconti

  Scary, Monsters, Albums

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• I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

  Duncan Sheik

  Supportive, Records, Deals

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• Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

  Warren Zevon

  Home, Stage, Presentation

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• At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

  Dee Dee Warwick

  Money, Backgrounds, Making Money

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• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Artist

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• I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Records

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• But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Mean, Listening

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• I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

  Greg Ginn

  Real, Sound Quality, Play

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• In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

  Steve Albini

  Black, Records, Firsts

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• If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

  Greg Ginn

  Motivational, People, Important

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• It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

  James Blunt

  Song, Stupid, Taken

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• I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

  Ronnie Montrose

  California, Jam, Band

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• Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours

  Stephen Colbert

  Tape, Want, Opinion

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• That's such a wonderful thing about the mixing process is when you write the demo or the track, [and] it sort of goes through a couple of different changes and you don't really know what tracks are going to end up working out.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Couple, Writing, Track

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• I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur.

  Robert Pollard

  Guitar, Play, Voice

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• I didn't really feel any pressure when I've made records, I haven't as yet anyway. I feel when I'm making a record that I'm so excited about making new songs that when I'm doing demos of new songs, as soon as I make one that's really different I get really excited about the record, I don't care about the last record anymore.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Different, Records

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• When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Track

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• I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

  John Fahey

  Records, Forget, Wasting My Time

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• I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

  Paul Taylor

  Levels, Producers, Melody

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• Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

  Mark Kozelek

  Song, Careers, Records

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Writing, Names

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

  Derek Sivers

  Successful, Years, Tv Shows

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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