Top 35 Paul Stanley Quotes

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Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can’t be KISS.
Paul Stanley
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
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
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
When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it’s close to gospel.
Paul Stanley
Credibility is someone else’s idea of what I should be doing.
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
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
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
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
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
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.
Paul Stanley
I love being a member of KISS.
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
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
Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.
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
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
If I had my way, I’d always be onstage. But I won’t always be able to be onstage.
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
I tend to fly a bit under the radar.
Paul Stanley
When you’re in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
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
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
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
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
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
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
I’m a real foodie.
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
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
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up

Don’t kid yourself; the guy who’s onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
Paul Stanley
Gene sometimes… well, he has his dream list.
Paul Stanley
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
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