Paul Stanley Quotes

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.

I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.

The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I love a bit of passion.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

It doesn't need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion... It's something you have to go through to learn what passion is about.

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Rock and roll is my religion.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.

When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

I spent a good solid two years giving my all to Adrenaline Mob.

The fans that fall in love with you at the show are always the most passionate.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.