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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Kygo

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

— Lykke Li

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

— Tinashe

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

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

— Maren Morris

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

— Nuno Bettencourt

I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

— Rick Rubin

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Greg Ginn

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