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
Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.
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.
In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.
The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too...
I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.
Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.
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.
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.