Paul Stanley Quotes

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.

But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.

10 Summers isn't just a label, it's a lifestyle.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

In those days I don't' think they were even demos.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.