Demos Quotes

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

  Dee Dee Warwick

  Money, Backgrounds, Making Money

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

  Big Jim Sullivan

  Stones

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

  Warren Zevon

  Albums, Firsts, Stage

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

  Duncan Sheik

  Supportive, Records, Deals

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

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Records

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

  Stephen Colbert

  Tape, Want, Opinion

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• So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written and just her on an acoustic, nylon-string guitar. And she'd play them for me, and then I would kind of drum up my idea of what I thought - make a demo with what I thought the drums should be doing, the guitars - like, quite a crude demo.

  Mark Ronson

  Beautiful, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

  Chris Espinosa

  Wire, Boards, Three

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• Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me.

  Mike Vallely

  Communication, Men, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

  Brian McKnight

  Singing, Records, Wanted

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

  Britta Phillips

  Sweat, Eric, Producers

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

  Mark Kozelek

  Energy, Interest

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

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• You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

  Joe Perry

  Successful, Band, Records

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

  Adam Richman

  Mom, Dad, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Demo: presentation of a specific set of capabilities needed to solve the customer's critical business issue.

  Peter Cohan

  Issues, Solve, Needed

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