Gene Simmons
If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.
Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
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.
Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.
The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
I think I know it all, relatively speaking.
England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
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.
Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.
I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.
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.
People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.
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.
Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.Collection: Cracks
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.Collection: Roots
What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.Collection: Meaningless
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.Collection: Inspirational
When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'Collection: Thinking
Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.Collection: Jobs
There are no limitations to any of our dreams.Collection: Dream
The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.Collection: Rocks
My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.Collection: Stars
You always start off with passion and the people that have it.Collection: Passion
If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.Collection: Inspirational
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?Collection: Stars
Men want success and sex. Women want everything.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Band
You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.Collection: Marketing
I have sold my soul to the devil.Collection: Soul
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.Collection: Needs
Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.Collection: Inspirational
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death. Postal workers who get arrested, they have mental problems. You know what? When you're dead you don't have a mental problem. If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.Collection: Kids
I've never been high or drunk in my life.Collection: Drunk
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.Collection: Kids
There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"Collection: Alcohol