Gene Simmons Quotations | Page 2

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.

Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm the big bad wolf and I'm supposed to do this and that. There are rules, which are self imposed I must say, but there are rules. We break enough of them, but the truth is that being Gene Simmons in an album called 'Asshole' forged me the opportunity of just recreating myself. Very much Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the big bad guy and Dr. Jekyll has studied and both are connected.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

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.

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.

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

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

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.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too...

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Imagine there are no men in life,

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

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

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.

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

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.

It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

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.

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

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 have sold my soul to the devil.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

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.

Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.

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.'

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs,

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

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.

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no 'try'

Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

Men want success and sex. Women want everything.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

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.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

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

Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn’t paint by numbers. You have to think for yourself. You have to invent yourself. You have an inferred fiduciary mandate to yourself, and that means, it’s your responsibility to learn people skills, and language skills, in order to increase your chances of success. You also have to be at the right place, at the right time, with the right thing. Mostly and invariably, the real product you’re going to be selling is….you.

If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

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.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

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.

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.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered,

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.