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

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Dust, Rarity

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

  Warren Zevon

  Albums, Firsts, Stage

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

  Duncan Sheik

  Supportive, Records, Deals

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

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Records

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

  Stephen Colbert

  Tape, Want, Opinion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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