Black Quote by Steve Albini

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to…

— Natasha Bedingfield

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you…

— Fiona Apple

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…

— Greg Ginn

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me…

— Beth Hart

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

— Chester Bennington

“When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: ‘Demo tapes are…

— Kirk Lake

They wanted to hear more, so thats what motivated me to keep doing it. I got in the studio. Ive been through so many…

— Ludacris

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being…

— Josh Turner

I started off doing street team work for No Limit and Def Jam. I was the waterboy, the scrub. I was passing out demo…

— Paul Wall

At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

— LL Cool J

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

— Stephen Colbert

I think perception and record are not always the same thing.

— Zohran Mamdani

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

— Sam Hunt

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

— Ezra Furman

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've…

— Gza