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