Best 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

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

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

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

I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend. — 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

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

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

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime. — Gene Simmons

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. — 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

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best. — Jason Newsted

If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge. — 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 have sold my soul to the devil. — Gene Simmons

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate. — 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

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

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

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting. — 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

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

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

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

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

According to Beth-Anne, the next reporter is Nico Renault from Hollywood Japan Network. Nico's recently had his face tattooed to look like the Kabuki-made-up Gene Simmons of the pre-FUS rock band Kiss. He wears his hair in bright blond spikes. He also wears the body of a cow suit without the head, the rubber udders protruding at crotch level, lending the getup a rather multipenised look. — Ryan Boudinot

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

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it. — Gene Simmons

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private. — 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

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

Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left. — Gene Simmons