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Paul Stanley, known as the Starchild in the rock band KISS, is not only a great musician but also a person of wit and wisdom
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
There’s a difference between standing up and telling people what you’re planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
I tend to fly a bit under the radar.
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.
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.
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.
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 You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.
You get nothing with a fist that you can’t get in multitudes with your hand open
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.
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.
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.
When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it’s close to gospel
In order to be comfortable with other people, you have to be comfortable with yourself.Don’t kid yourself; the guy who’s onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
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
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
You’re at your best when you don’t know what you’re doing.
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.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.
We’re the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.
- “You know, quite often a character or a persona is much bigger than the person who actually carries it around.”
- “There’s no substitute for live work to keep a band together.”
- “When you start fooling around with drugs, you’re at the roulette table, gambling. The stake is your life.”
- “Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.”
- “Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit that has been successful is not easy to top.”
- “I’ve never bought into any slot that I have been put in and never will.”
- “The idea of the KISS Army was to have the fans as our defense and our army, but what it turned out to be was that the fans used us as their army. They used us as their defense against people picking on them.”
- “To come out on stage and hear the crowd roar is the best thing in the world.”
- “Rock and roll is about freedom, and that’s not freedom.”
- “You can’t live your life by the polls. You can’t make music to satisfy someone else’s taste.”
