Gene Simmons Quotes

• "And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist."
• "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."
• "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."
• "I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff."
• "I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party."
• "I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well."
• "Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."
• "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."
• "My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose."
• "No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band."
• "The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something."
• "The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs."
• "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."
• "You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am."