Gene Simmons Quotes

• Everybody hates critics.

  Gene Simmons

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  Tags in Everybody, Critics, Hates

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

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• The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Marriage, Reason

• People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Job, Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate, Earth

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Life, Mother

  Tags in Good

• 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

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  Tags in Care, Long, Another

• I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

  Gene Simmons

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  Tags in Idea, Until, Ideas

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Heart, Nothing

• The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Sad

  Tags in Happy, Selfish

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

  Gene Simmons

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  Tags in Place, Thousands

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Library, Studying

• I’d like to think that the boring lady who’s talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who’s doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and – I bet you’re a lot of fun at a party.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Thinking, Party

• 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

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  Tags in Households, Stuff

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Question

• James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people’s attention.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Celebrity, License, Attention

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Research, Person

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Self, Friends

• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, Thinking, Importance

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

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Beautiful, Popular, Skin

• I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rock Star, Actor

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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