Gene Simmons Quotes

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

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.

I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

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

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

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

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

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.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

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.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

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.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

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

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

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

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.

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

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

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.

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

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

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.

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

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

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

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

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.