Gene Simmons Quotes

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.
Gene Simmons

Alone, Love, Themselves

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
Gene Simmons

Life, Today, Through

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
Gene Simmons

Life, Yourself, Short

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.
Gene Simmons

Life, Mother, Person

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
Gene Simmons

Sad, Happy, Selfish

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

Giving, Jobs, Welfare

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

Place, England, Thousands

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.
Gene Simmons

History, Truth, Mother

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.
Gene Simmons

Rock, Play, Band

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
Gene Simmons

Simply, Makeup, Express

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.
Gene Simmons

Mother, Heart, Nothing

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.
Gene Simmons

Wanted, Library, Band

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.
Gene Simmons

Life, Important, Enough

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

Love, Work, Money

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

Idea, Until, Ideas

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
Gene Simmons

Life, Live, Wait

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.
Gene Simmons

Time, Nothing, Means

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. That's a lie.
Gene Simmons

Love, Heart, Woman

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.
Gene Simmons

Care, Long, Another

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

Done, Dream, American

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.
Gene Simmons

Life, Good, Mother

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

Hate, Job, Earth

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

Life, Marriage, Reason

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.
Gene Simmons

Daily, Through, Working

Everybody hates critics.
Gene Simmons

Everybody, Critics, Hates

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Nationality: American

Born: August 25, 1949

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