Quotes About Demos

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

Beck

#2. Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'

Madonna Ciccone

#3. The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry, Blame It On Me." The first two demos I ever wrote and demoed, the two biggest artists at the time took them.

Bryce Wilson

#4. I love listening to demos. They're so raw.

Lykke Li

#5. I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!

Calvin Harris

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. There they are. Lieutenant Jack Loveday and Lieutenant Alex Wakeman. I've only seen their photos so far and the pictures that are in Demos's head, but the truth is Demos did not do them justice. In fact, Demos's head needs a tune up or a reboot or an entirely new operating system altogether.

Sarah Alderson

#9. Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

Beck

#10. 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

#11. There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.

Guy Kawasaki

#12. At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.

Jim Messina

#13. I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

Norah Jones

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases, we were fortunate enough to have old demos and stuff that never really saw the light of day. But Pantera was not the type of band to waste many riffs or many parts or songs.

Phil Anselmo

#18. 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

#19. Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?"

Craig Finn

#20. I tried to make my mind go blank. La la la la la la la la.
'You can't keep that up forever,' Suki said, with a touch of menace.
La la la la la la la.
'Oh, Demos, make her stop.

Sarah Alderson

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

Adrian Belew

#22. If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it.

Jay Baer

#23. I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home.

Jason Mraz

#24. From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

Calvin Harris

#25. 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

#26. When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: 'Demo tapes are like baby pictures, everybody's got them, you just don't want them passed around.

Kirk Lake

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

Kathleen Hanna

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

Mark Kozelek

#29. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

David Cameron

#30. In those days I don't' think they were even demos.

Roger Daltrey

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

Duncan Sheik

#32. My mission, which I chose to accept, is to infiltrate the enemy. Jack and
Alex are the enemy. I pause, wondering how Demos defines infiltration.
'Not that way', Alicia answers.

Sarah Alderson

#33. Demos are mock battles, never the real thing. Everybody knows where they're going to happen, and when and why. Nobody gets seriously hurt. Well, not unless they ask for it. (ch. 4)

John Le Carre

#34. 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

#35. Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.

Jeff Minter

#36. We completely need him. Who else comes up with the plans?"
"Demos?"
"Yes, but he isn't hot, Nate. We talked about is.

Sarah Alderson

#37. I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

Albert Hammond Jr.

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

Dee Dee Warwick

#39. Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.

Trent Reznor

#40. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

Sondre Lerche

#41. France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Luke Treadaway

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

Tony Visconti

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

Jim Sullivan

#45. Throughout the '50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made their first recordings at the former Memphis Recording Service.

Shawn Amos

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

Dan Reynolds

#49. I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

Zooey Deschanel

#50. I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

George Harrison

#51. 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

#52. What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Grandmaster Flash

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

Peter Cohan

#54. Okay you found me out. Beyond without a doubt, your lie is safe with me. A friend, i'm sure you are. And on this day so far, I've fallen hundred see?

Tegan Quin

#55. Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I'm all alone. I'm still missing you, missing you, missing you.

Tegan Quin

#56. I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now.

Tegan Quin

#57. If you've got it to give, You've got to give it all. If you've got it to give, You've got to give it all. Oh give it all to me.

Tegan Quin

#58. I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.

Tegan Quin

#59. Hello? It's where I've been so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Hello? It's you and me so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Tegan Quin

#60. What I don't know don't keep me hostage. It's your love that locks me up and I want you to know that I love the way you make my heart tear up.

Tegan Quin

#61. I'm infamous for being infamous. I don't think you're so famous miss. I miss everything, When you're away from me.

Tegan Quin

#62. Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.

Tegan Quin