Kelly Jones Quotes

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that I didn't think were going to be much that really connected with people. So expectations are left at the door. But hope exists all the time.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

People are being more ­experimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go to my kids' school and see kids playing in bands. It is a sign of what's to come.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.