Paul Stanley Quotes

If everyone in the party has to agree on everything, that’s going to be a very small party.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.

The chairman of a committee should be in harmony with the majority who constitute it.

Majority rule is not the norm for solving issues or problems.

When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when going solo, I am the boss. People can contribute ideas, but I am the boss. When collaborating, you make compromises and look for a common ground.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.

Consensus is the essence of the legislative process.

We never go against a candidate for one or two votes. You can’t.

That’s one difficulty about a democracy. Nothing ever gets decided—even after its been decided.

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

I'm going to do what is best for the caucus.

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.

A band is not a democracy: It's show business.

I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

The minority must bow to the majority.