Kelly Jones Quotes

In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I love the music business very much.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.