Top 35 Ace Frehley Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

2. “One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter.”

— Ace Frehley

3. “I’m just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.”

— Ace Frehley

4. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

6. “I can’t even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

8. “People, y’know, they either love us or they hate us; there’s no middle ground.”

— Ace Frehley

9. “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!”

— Ace Frehley

10. “I just didn’t expect an acoustic version of Rock’n’Roll All Nite.”

— Ace Frehley

11. “I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.”

— Ace Frehley

12. “That’s what Kiss is all about – not just music, but entertainment, y’know? We’re there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you’re at the concert.”

— Ace Frehley

13. “I’ve never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it’s a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn’t work that way with heroin.”

— Ace Frehley

14. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

15. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

16. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

18. “I’m the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

20. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

21. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

23. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

24. “One thing I love to do is produce. I’ve produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with ’em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.”

— Ace Frehley

25. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

27. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

28. “I’m just a down-to-earth guy.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

30. “I’m not here to perform. I’m here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

32. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

33. “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.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley

35. “I’ll get up there and I’ll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

— Ace Frehley

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

— Ace Frehley