Ace Frehley Quotes

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.