Top 100 Gene Simmons Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have sold my soul to the devil.”

— Gene Simmons

2. “Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no ‘try’”

— Gene Simmons

3. “Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

6. “It’s better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.”

— Gene Simmons

7. “Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.”

— Gene Simmons

8. “Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too...”

— Gene Simmons

9. “There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.”

— Gene Simmons

10. “What we have is pretty meaningless. It’s what we are that counts.”

— Gene Simmons

11. “Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.”

— Gene Simmons

12. “It’s hard to see your destination when you’re focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.”

— Gene Simmons

13. “Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.”

— Gene Simmons

14. “I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don’t use drugs.”

— Gene Simmons

15. “You can’t start motoring up life’s road until you get your buns in gear.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

17. “When you’re busy doing your own stuff it’s like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.”

— Gene Simmons

18. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

21. “With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.”

— Gene Simmons

22. “If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.”

— Gene Simmons

23. “You know why I’m pulling your leg? Because I can’t touch it from where I am.”

— Gene Simmons

24. “You need to eat, but you don’t really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.”

— Gene Simmons

25. “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

26. “Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.”

— Gene Simmons

27. “The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.”

— Gene Simmons

28. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

29. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

30. “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

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

— Gene Simmons

32. “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

33. “Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.”

— Gene Simmons

34. “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

35. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

36. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” AGATHA CHRISTIE English author and playwright.”

— Gene Simmons

37. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

38. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

40. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

41. “Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

43. “Music is the only industry where you don’t need to know what you’re doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.”

— Gene Simmons

44. “Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.”

— Gene Simmons

45. “Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It’s the biggest influence on everybody’s life.”

— Gene Simmons

46. “I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.”

— Gene Simmons

47. “Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

50. “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.”

— Gene Simmons