Face the Music Quotes

“in order to be comfortable with other people, you have to be comfortable with yourself.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“You can be with somebody and still feel alone.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“The ultimate rebellion wasn’t fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“The more opportunity I have to treat people the way I wished I myself had been treated, the better I feel.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“can gauge how important something is to you by how hard you are willing to work to get it.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“The surprise came a few months later when Slash called me and wanted to follow up on my offer to help him get some free guitars. “You want me to help you get guitars after you went around saying all that shit about me behind my back?” Slash got real quiet. “You know, one thing you’re going to have to learn is not to air your dirty laundry in public. Nice knowing you. Go fuck yourself.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“Don’t come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles.” Fight my own battles? I’m five!”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“People who dismissed the success of others as luck were people who had failed. It was a way to absolve themselves of accountability for failure and discount someone else's role in their own accomplishments. And the idea that success was the result of luck also made other people feel entitled, as if the 'lucky' ones should share their luck without reservation. After all, it could have happened to anyone.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“At the end of the day "Love Guns" wasn't about guns--I was just singing about my dick.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“The person you have to watch is the one pointing the finger.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“So many people are miserable. They need someone to entertain them. Why can't it be me?”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“One night while we were sitting in front of our mirrors putting on our makeup, Peter walked up behind Ace and put his dick on his shoulder. Ace very nonchalantly turned to the side and gave it a kiss. So he became the chef, because he had to taste e”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“There was a debauched kind of elegance to the British bands: they had great haircuts, they wore velvets and satins, and they were cohesive not only in their musical style, but in their attire and personas. They had individual identities but also a band identity----band members were stylish in a way that complemented one another.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“I started to built a wall around myself. My way of dealing with other kids became to preemptively push them away. I started to act like a smart-ass or a clown, putting myself in a position where nobody wanted to be around me. I wished I weren't alone all the time, but at the same time, I did things to keep people away from me. The conflict inside could be excruciating. I was helpless.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“One night on the road just after Alive! came out, a woman and I were lying under the sheets in a hotel bed. She turned to me, puzzled, and said, “My boyfriend told me you were gay.” “Well, I guess that didn’t work,” I said. “Because it didn’t keep you away.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“One night while we were sitting in front of our mirrors putting on our makeup, Peter walked up behind Ace and put his dick on his shoulder. Ace very nonchalantly turned to the side and gave it a kiss. So he became the chef, because he had to taste everything.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“I am here because of those who came before. And I will go on because of those who come after.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“I knew from rock concerts that people notice your reaction to mistakes more than they notice the actual mistakes, so I just kept singing—in gibberish. Eventually my mind cleared.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“Robert Plant had cut his hair and was wearing parachute pants for God’s sake. Nobody was impervious to what was going on—even the Who and the Stones were affected by”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“Using a double bass drum in rock came about as a way to emulate what John Bonham of Led Zeppelin managed to do with one bass drum. His foot was so fast that it took most drummers two kick drums and both feet to mimic it.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“I wasn’t crazy—I didn’t see us in the same league as Zeppelin.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“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, Face the Music: A Life Exposed