Top 100 Quotes About Gene Simmons
#1. 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
#2. When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
Roy Lichtenstein
#3. I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Gary Cole
#4. Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".
Bill Maher
#5. The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar sign the way Gene Simmons probably always wanted to.
Rob Sheffield
#6. When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
Trent Reznor
#7. Gene Simmons after three months in the Gobi Desert? The Hunchback of Notre Dame following corrective surgery? An escaped Muppet? The drummer from Ratt?
Greg Sestero
#8. 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.
Gene Simmons
#9. Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy from Kiss. Gene Simmons has literally been in the audience at my shows, like, four times. I don't know if he knows me; he's just a big fan of comedy.
Mike Birbiglia
#10. Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.
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#11. I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Trent Reznor
#12. 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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#13. My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
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#14. 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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#15. No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#19. I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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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#22. Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
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#23. 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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#24. Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
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#25. 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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#26. Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.
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#30. The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
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#33. What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.
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#34. The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.
Dan Simmons
#35. 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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#36. Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
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#37. There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
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#38. Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
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#39. Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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#40. We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.
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#41. Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.
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#42. 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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#43. The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.
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#52. The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.
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#53. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
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#54. I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.
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#55. I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
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#56. 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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#57. I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
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#58. 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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#60. 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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#61. Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too ...
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#62. Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.
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#63. 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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#64. Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.
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#65. 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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#66. Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.
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#67. No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
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#71. With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.
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#72. Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
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#76. 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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#77. I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.
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#82. Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
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#83. Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
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#84. Men want success and sex. Women want everything.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.
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#92. The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
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#93. 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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#94. People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.
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#95. If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.
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#100. When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
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