Gene Simmons Quotes - Page 4

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

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.

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.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

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

Live well - respire frequently.

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

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.

Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.

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.

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

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

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

People are only what we believe them to be.

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.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.