A Quote by Mark Kozelek

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

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Mark Kozelek
American - Musician
Born: January 24, 1967

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

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

Mark Kozelek

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

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

When we make demos of our songs, we do our demos in English - the whole song's in English.

Jennie

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

I feel like when I get the demos - I get a lot of demos - but when I get the right demo, I get very inspired. I produce around it, and it often goes very fast.

Kygo

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.

Lesley Gore

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

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

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

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.

Mike Patton

I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.

Kygo

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

Jonas Blue

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.