Top 40 Gene Simmons Quotes

I don’t sleep all that much, but when I do, it’s sound.

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.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.

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.

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.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people’s attention.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don’t want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

If you’re building a house, or doing anything, time is what you’ve got. Well, there’s effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

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.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they’re mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

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.

I’ve always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don’t mature until we’re in our 60s.

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother’s heart.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia – I feed and clothe them – but I don’t hold press conferences about it. I don’t do it so you’ll think what a nice person I am; it’s private.

I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn’t care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

The root of all evil isn’t money; rather, it’s not having enough money.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

If you win a race, you don’t ask how you did it, as long as you do it.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

Everybody hates critics.

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

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.

It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

I like to approach every day like it’s the only day I will ever have.

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

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

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.

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 know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I’m skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what’s on the stove.

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

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.

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.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

In theater, you’re playing characters. You believe you’re somebody else, and you’re acting.

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

The Beatles weren’t like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.