40 Gene Simmons Quotes

Gene Simmons quotes

1. You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!

2. KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

3. Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.

4. Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

5. People say, 'I want to get laid a lot and make lots of money.' That's not the right order.

6. A whore, in my estimation, has more credibility than a wife, and I'll tell you why. A wife is supposed to marry you for love. A whore is not there for love, she's there to service you. Now, the difference between them is a whore, before she does her work, will tell you exactly what it is. She'll tell you, 'Blow job? This'll cost you seventy-five dollars. This is not love, and after I'm done I never want to see you again.' Full disclosure is what they call it in court. A wife will tell you shit. A wife will tell you nothing. She's about to marry you. If you get divorced, she's going to take 50 percent of your gross pretax dollars and try to get more. Now, before you get married, if you dare bring up the notion, 'By the way, let's just be completely honest with each other, what happens if we break up?' she will cry and tell you, 'That's so unromantic.' You know who's more credible? The whore.

7. 'You can't buy love with money.' Only a poor person says that.

8. You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that?

9. 'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'

10. And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

15. Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

16. My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. (February 4, 2002 interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air)

17. My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. (February 4, 2002 interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air)

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

19. The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs. (February 4, 2002 interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air)

20. 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.

21. You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am. (February 4, 2002 interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air)

22. It's that good being me.

1. You always start off with passion and the people that have it.

2. I've never been high or drunk in my life.

3. 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.

4. I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.

5. I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

6. Live well - respire frequently.

7. 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.

8. Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

9. After 9/11, people all of a sudden became patriotic and showed the colors. Why did it take something bad to happen? It means something. People have died for it, and continue to do so.

10. 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.

11. If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

15. I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.

16. William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

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

18. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.