Best Paul Stanley Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick. — Paul Bettany

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tonight Must Last Us Forever — Paul Stanley

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

Paul declared in Philippians 3:8: "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ" (NASB). — Charles F. Stanley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. 'Singin' in the Rain' in Clockwork Orange - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind. — Paul Thomas Anderson

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. — Charles Stanley

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

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

I love being a member of KISS. — Paul Stanley

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

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