Gene Simmons Quotes - Page 5

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

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. Thats a lie.

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.

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.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

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.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

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.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'

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.

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

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

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.

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

It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.

When you're dead you don't have a mental problem.

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

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.