Kelly Jones Quotes

The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.

The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I've felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years.

The reason 'Fireball' is my favorite album of that period is that without 'Fireball,' we would never have been able to make 'Machine Head.'

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at in the moment.

It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

I'm not the biggest fan of my first album.

When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

My music's gonna evolve as I get older.