Kelly Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
-- Kelly Jones
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
-- Kelly Jones

#Artist #Done #Bowie
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.
-- Kelly Jones

#Two #Albums #Band
The story behind every song is individual to itself.
-- Kelly Jones

#Song #Stories #Individual
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
-- Kelly Jones

#Song #Guitar #Paris
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
-- Kelly Jones

#Song #Stuff #Easier
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
-- Kelly Jones

#Eye #Beer #Cities
Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
-- Kelly Jones

#Japan #Waiting #Sound
I'm not a betting man.
-- Kelly Jones

#Men #Betting
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
-- Kelly Jones

#Want #Problem #Overnight Success
To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.
-- Kelly Jones

#Thinking #Keys #Records
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
-- Kelly Jones

#Song #Writing #Ideas
Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
-- Kelly Jones

#Events #Gigs #Bigs
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
-- Kelly Jones

#Giving #Trying #Sometimes
Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.
-- Kelly Jones

#Albums #Four #Next
I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.
-- Kelly Jones

#Song #Kings #Party

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