Top 100 Gene Simmons Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
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#4. James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.
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#13. The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.
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#14. Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
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#15. What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.
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#16. Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.
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#17. There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
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#18. Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
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#19. Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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#20. Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.
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#21. Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.
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#22. Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.
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#23. There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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#24. I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.
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#25. Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.
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#30. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
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#31. I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.
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#32. 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.
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#33. I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.
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#38. 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.
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#39. No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
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#43. 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.
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#44. England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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?
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#47. Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.
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#48. It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out
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#49. I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.
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#50. Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
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#51. Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.
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#55. 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.'
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.
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#60. If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.
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#61. Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.
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#62. I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.
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#64. I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
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#65. I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.
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#66. Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.
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#67. 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.
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#68. When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
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#69. If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs,
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#70. You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
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#71. Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same ... not worse ... better.
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#72. Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
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#73. I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.
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#75. There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.
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#76. Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.
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#78. I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
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#79. I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.
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#80. I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
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#81. 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.
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#82. You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.
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#83. I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.
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#84. People are only what we believe them to be.
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#85. The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.
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#89. I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so it makes more sense: 'sex death and rock 'n' roll'
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#90. 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.
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#91. Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.
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#92. I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
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#93. William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.
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#94. I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
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#95. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no 'try'
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#96. I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
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#97. The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
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#98. Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.
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#99. Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.
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#100. I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.
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