Top 100 Gene Simmons Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn’t work.”

— Gene Simmons

52. “Live well – respire frequently.”

— Gene Simmons

53. “I’m aware, as a sane person, that I’m not the best-looking guy in the world. I’m aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

55. “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

56. “Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother.”

— Gene Simmons

57. “Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.”

— Gene Simmons

58. “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

59. “There are no limitations to any of our dreams.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

61. “Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.”

— Gene Simmons

62. “Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.”

— Gene Simmons

63. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

64. “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

65. “The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.”

— Gene Simmons

66. “Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.”

— Gene Simmons

67. “We don’t know whether or not it’s the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.”

— Gene Simmons

68. “I think it’s pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It’s love or hate.”

— Gene Simmons

69. “Better to discuss everything out in the open while you’re in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It’s called Full Disclosure Before The Fact.”

— Gene Simmons

70. “Let’s say you’re a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.”

— Gene Simmons

71. “I would recommend you watch the movie ‘Jobs’ starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don’t have time to read Jobs’s biography.”

— Gene Simmons

72. “I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.”

— Gene Simmons

73. “The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That’s it. I’ll house you, protect you, I’ll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.”

— Gene Simmons

74. “Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.”

— Gene Simmons

75. “A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications – and by forgetting to put the lid back down.”

— Gene Simmons

76. “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

77. “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

78. “If you’re a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.”

— Gene Simmons

79. “Ladies, first and foremost: you’re on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.”

— Gene Simmons

80. “If you’re the greatest, it’s okay to say you’re the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn’t that strong.”

— Gene Simmons

81. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

82. “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

83. “Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people’s lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.”

— Gene Simmons

84. “Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother’s womb.”

— Gene Simmons

85. “My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that’s what they were used to.”

— Gene Simmons

86. “The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.”

— Gene Simmons

87. “Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.”

— Gene Simmons

88. “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.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

90. “Fans like their heroes simple. I’m supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.”

— Gene Simmons

91. “I’m from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

94. “I think I know it all, relatively speaking.”

— Gene Simmons

95. “To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.”

— Gene Simmons

96. “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. Thats a lie.”

— Gene Simmons

97. “If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.”

— Gene Simmons

98. “You actually don’t need much. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have it all.”

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

100. “So much of our popular mythology focuses on the negative aspects of power that we forget that gaining power is, perhaps, the only way to enable ourselves to make a difference in our lives and in the lives of others.”

— Gene Simmons