Top 181 Quotes & Sayings by Gene Simmons - Page 3

I have sold my soul to the devil.

I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend.

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.

Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.

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

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.

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

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. Thats a lie.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

Live well - respire frequently.

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

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

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

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

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

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

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.

I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.

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.

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

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.

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!"

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

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.

People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.

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.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

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.

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

People are only what we believe them to be.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

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.

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

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I want to be dictator.

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.

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'