Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
Chaim Witz, known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor and television personality. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded with rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley in the early 1970s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1949
CityTirat Carmel, Israel
CountryUnited States of America
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.
I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.
I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.
I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.
I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.
If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.
I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.
I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.
Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.
I fail all of the time. It means nothing.
The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.
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.