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 crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.
England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
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.
If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.
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.
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.
I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.