Top 110 Demos Quotes & Sayings

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.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because the lyrics don't come until later.

I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend as much time as I can with them. I listen to their demos, and I'm encouraging.

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.

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

I love soundtracks. I used to have three iPod classics: one with regular music, one with soundtracks, and one with demos on it.

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.

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.

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

My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

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.

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.

If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.

A lot of the demos I write are all in English, so releasing music in English isn't translating to English, it's just keeping them in English.

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

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.

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.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I wouldn't have wasted a lot of time pursuing music. I was very lucky that my first demos got accepted.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

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.

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.

Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn't be successful until I let the street life go.

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.

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.

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

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

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos.

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

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.

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?"

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.

The first two My Morning Jacket records were basically demos.

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

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

I use a lot of utility apps on my iPad, and I have four kinds of 'Angry Birds' games! I also use GarageBand to create demos.