Paul Stanley Quotes

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.