Gene Simmons Quotes

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Through

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Why, Sometimes

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Everybody, Books

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in God

  Tags in Two, Days

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Else, Between

• Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, Must, Committed

• Live and think like a poor man and you’ll always be OK.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Poor

• Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Show, Kiss

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in History, Mother, Truth

• 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

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Successful, Class

• If someone likes you, they’ll buy what you’re selling, whether or not they need it.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Whether, Likes

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Become, Until

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Learn, President

• I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vote, President

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Woman, Attention

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Travel, Often

• I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Live, Wait

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Love, Money, Work

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Giving

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Girl, Ever

Gene Simmons (46)

Birth:	25th August, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Entrepreneur, Lyricist, Musician, Producer

About

Gene Simmons is an Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor. Known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist/co-lead vocalist of KISS, a rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. With KISS, Simmons has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.

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