Paul Stanley Quotes
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Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
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If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.
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If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.
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I live in the house bad reviews built.
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I love being a member of KISS.
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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.
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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.
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When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
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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.
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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.
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You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.
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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.
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The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
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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.
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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.
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