Gene Simmons Quotes & Sayings

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids. — Gene Simmons

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in. — Gene Simmons

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. — Gene Simmons

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. — Gene Simmons

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur. — Gene Simmons

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. — Gene Simmons

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint. — Gene Simmons

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can. — Gene Simmons

I fail all of the time. It means nothing. — Gene Simmons

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama. — Gene Simmons

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave. — Gene Simmons

Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother. — Gene Simmons

I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something. — Gene Simmons

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography. — Gene Simmons

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am. — Gene Simmons

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. — Gene Simmons

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man. — Gene Simmons

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone. — Gene Simmons

When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.' — Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it. — Gene Simmons

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life. — Gene Simmons

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish. — Gene Simmons

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff. — Gene Simmons

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow. — Gene Simmons

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important. — Gene Simmons

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity. — Gene Simmons

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming. — Gene Simmons

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop. — Gene Simmons

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK. — Gene Simmons

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. — Gene Simmons

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie. — Gene Simmons

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk. — Gene Simmons

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff. — Gene Simmons

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death. Postal workers who get arrested, they have mental problems. You know what? When you're dead you don't have a mental problem. If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it. — Gene Simmons

Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn't paint by numbers. You have to think for yourself. You have to invent yourself. You have an inferred fiduciary mandate to yourself, and that means, it's your responsibility to learn people skills, and language skills, in order to increase your chances of success. You also have to be at the right place, at the right time, with the right thing. Mostly and invariably, the real product you're going to be selling is ... .you. — Gene Simmons

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why. — Gene Simmons

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. — Gene Simmons

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart. — Gene Simmons

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But ... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that. — Gene Simmons

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. — Gene Simmons

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't. — Gene Simmons

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman. — Gene Simmons

Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be. — Gene Simmons

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect. — Gene Simmons

Women are from Mars, men have a penis — Gene Simmons

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to. — Gene Simmons

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind. — Gene Simmons

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it. — Gene Simmons

Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey ... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living. — Gene Simmons

I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything. — Gene Simmons

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention. — Gene Simmons

Men want success and sex. Women want everything. — Gene Simmons

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too ... — Gene Simmons

Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans. — Gene Simmons

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band. — Gene Simmons

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference. — Gene Simmons

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married. — Gene Simmons

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy? — Gene Simmons

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you. — Gene Simmons

Live well - respire frequently. — Gene Simmons

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well. — Gene Simmons

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs, — Gene Simmons

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary. — Gene Simmons

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s. — Gene Simmons

What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts. — Gene Simmons

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy. — Gene Simmons

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else. — Gene Simmons

Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment. — Gene Simmons

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle. — Gene Simmons

Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact. — Gene Simmons

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs. — Gene Simmons

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff. — Gene Simmons

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do. — Gene Simmons

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound. — Gene Simmons

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate. — Gene Simmons

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. — Gene Simmons

First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. — Gene Simmons

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies. — Gene Simmons

People are only what we believe them to be. — Gene Simmons

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. — Gene Simmons

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. — Gene Simmons

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot. — Gene Simmons

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics. — Gene Simmons

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down. — Gene Simmons

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear. — Gene Simmons

You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody. — Gene Simmons

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face. — Gene Simmons

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so. — Gene Simmons

There are no limitations to any of our dreams. — Gene Simmons

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make. — Gene Simmons

Imagine there are no men in life, — Gene Simmons

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something. — Gene Simmons

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***. — Gene Simmons

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid. — Gene Simmons

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. — Gene Simmons

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title. — Gene Simmons

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music. — Gene Simmons

Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in. — Gene Simmons

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat. — Gene Simmons

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school. — Gene Simmons