Quotes by Gene Simmons

About Gene Simmons:

Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, and television personality. Known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. With Kiss, Simmons has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.
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I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

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

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

Gene Simmons

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

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

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

Gene Simmons

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

Gene Simmons

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

Gene Simmons

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

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

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

If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.

Gene Simmons

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Gene Simmons

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

Gene Simmons

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

Gene Simmons

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

Gene Simmons

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Gene Simmons

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

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

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

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

Gene Simmons

Author Bio

  • NameGene Simmons
  • DescriptionIsraeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor
  • BornAugust 25, 1949
  • CountryIsrael
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Guitarist; Singer; Singer-songwriter; Film Producer; Composer; Voice Actor; Blogger; Songwriter