Demo Recordings Quotes

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.

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

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.

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.

I have a ton of Slipknot demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they'll surface; maybe they'll never be heard, but I don't translate them to any other band: they still stay in the Slipknot safe. I won't use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.