Demos Quotes - Page 2

• I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

  Luke Treadaway

  Play, Records, Hopefully

  Interview with Sarah Smith, www.instyle.co.uk. March 7, 2013.

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• Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."

  Paul Banks

  New York, Successful, Play

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• ...Had dreams of fancy cars and limos,
  And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo.

  Erick Sermon

  Dream, Rap, Fancy Cars

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• Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

  Beck

  Band, Gigs, Flyers

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

  Mark Gibbs

  Technology, Numbers, People

  "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.

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• In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

  Peter Thiel

  Fate, Technology, Our World

  "The Education of a Libertarian". www.cato-unbound.org. April 13, 2009.

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.

  Danny Jacob

  Song, Writing, Player

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Country, Song, Writing

  "Kathleen Hanna is a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.

  Drake

  Hate, Successful, People

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.

  Alex Turner

  Summer, June, Guitar

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• Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Real, Writing

  "I'd have loved to play every part. I'd have been brilliant" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

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• The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Energy, Doe

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

  Boy George

  Sex, Children, Holiday

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

  Lou Doillon

  Song, Drawing, Singing

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• I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

  Q-Tip

  Song, Years, Magic

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• So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

  Eric Idle

  Fashion, Years, Mind

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

  Sky Ferreira

  Song, Program, My Friends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.

  Ekoplekz

  Cutting, People, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

  Marc Almond

  Song, Thinking, Three

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

  George Michael

  Song, Couple, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

  Billy Lawrence

  Air, Fans, Landscape

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family.

  Jill Stein

  Reality, Thinking, Political

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Interview with Los Angeles Times editorial board, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• I really think it's just the people you put around you. For instance, you mentioned "Kiss Goodbye," that was a song that was brought to me by Dan Couch and Dale Oliver. They had already started writing it without. They had put together this whole demo of music with no lyrics.

  Cody Johnson

  Goodbye, Song, Writing

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

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