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Famous Quotes By Paul Stanley

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During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say. — Paul Stanley

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America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does ... I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it. — Paul Stanley

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The ultimate rebellion wasn't fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully. — Paul Stanley

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Gene sometimes ... well, he has his dream list. — Paul Stanley

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Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing. — Paul Stanley

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Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes. — Paul Stanley

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When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel. — Paul Stanley

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You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley

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Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. — Paul Stanley

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Judging others and being quick to criticize just pollutes your life. Learning how to open your hand is the best thing you can possibly learn. — Paul Stanley

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We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served. — Paul Stanley

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Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS. — Paul Stanley

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We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms ... — Paul Stanley

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I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete. — Paul Stanley

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The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine. — Paul Stanley

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I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much. — Paul Stanley

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Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me ... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises. — Paul Stanley

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When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back. — Paul Stanley

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Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire! — Paul Stanley

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Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am. — Paul Stanley

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Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage. — Paul Stanley

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I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great. — Paul Stanley

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I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body. — Paul Stanley

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I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive. — Paul Stanley

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The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle. — Paul Stanley

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Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you. — Paul Stanley

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The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist. — Paul Stanley

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I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky. — Paul Stanley

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Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley

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I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans. — Paul Stanley

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It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. — Paul Stanley

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The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore. — Paul Stanley

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KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else. — Paul Stanley

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There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something. — Paul Stanley

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I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie. — Paul Stanley

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he said, "Don't you give him too much love?" "You can never give a child too much love," I said. "You can only give them too little love. Love doesn't make a child weaker, it makes a child stronger." That was an odd one for my dad to hear. If I ever heard someone telling Evan not to cry, not to be a baby, anything like that, I made a point of telling Evan the truth that I had discovered: people who hide their emotions are weak. You find strength and peace by being open. — Paul Stanley

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The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers. — Paul Stanley

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The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup! — Paul Stanley

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When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway. — Paul Stanley

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I tend to fly a bit under the radar. — Paul Stanley

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I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me. — Paul Stanley

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In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something. — Paul Stanley

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Trying to show people how talented and bright you are is the best way to make an idiot of yourself, and we ended up doing that with flying colors. — Paul Stanley

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The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life. — Paul Stanley

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I was also skeptical about what all the grunge bands would do on their second albums. There were a lot of great first albums, but what would they do once they were platinum acts instead of kids living in roach-infested garages? I mean, if they were so miserable, once they had money, they could all go see shrinks. — Paul Stanley

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I wasn't crazy - I didn't see us in the same league as Zeppelin. — Paul Stanley

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A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch. — Paul Stanley

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Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society. — Paul Stanley

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You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally. — Paul Stanley

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I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely. — Paul Stanley

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I love being a member of KISS. — Paul Stanley

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The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations. — Paul Stanley

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The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. — Paul Stanley

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Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art. — Paul Stanley

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I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work. — Paul Stanley

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If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there. — Paul Stanley

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you get nothing with a fist that you can't get in multitudes with your hand open. — Paul Stanley

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when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany. — Paul Stanley

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People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity. — Paul Stanley

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To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store. — Paul Stanley

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The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. — Paul Stanley

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. — Paul Stanley

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As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members. — Paul Stanley

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Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible. — Paul Stanley

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in order to be comfortable with other people, you have to be comfortable with yourself. — Paul Stanley

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What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability. — Paul Stanley

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If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage. — Paul Stanley

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My workout is always with a trainer because, quite honestly, I don't think most people are motivated enough to do what they need to on their own. You either need a spotter or you need a trainer. You need somebody there to push you to get that extra five. — Paul Stanley

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It's a really special night for our fans. It's vindication. — Paul Stanley

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One thing I had figured out by then was that talent, like everything else, was just a starting point. What counted was what you did with it. I knew I wasn't the most talented guitar player or the best singer or the best writer, but I could do all of those things, and I had a complete vision of what it was going to take to succeed---a vision that included working, working, working. — Paul Stanley

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I know life sometimes can get tough!
And I know life sometimes can be a drag!
But people, we have been given a gift,
we have been given a road
And that road's name is Rock and Roll! — Paul Stanley

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You can be with somebody and still feel alone. — Paul Stanley

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Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played. — Paul Stanley

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I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church. — Paul Stanley

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I live in the house bad reviews built. — Paul Stanley

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There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army. — Paul Stanley

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Tonight Must Last Us Forever — Paul Stanley

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Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome. — Paul Stanley

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I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you. — Paul Stanley

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Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans. — Paul Stanley

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Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.' — Paul Stanley