I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.
Gene SimmonsI'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
Gene SimmonsMy skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Gene SimmonsThe 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 SimmonsAnyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.
Gene SimmonsUnless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.
Gene SimmonsFans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.
Gene SimmonsIf you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.
Gene SimmonsIt's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.
Gene SimmonsIf your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.
Gene SimmonsI fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
Gene SimmonsEngland is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
Gene SimmonsJames Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Gene SimmonsThe Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
Gene SimmonsAnybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
Gene SimmonsWe don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.
Gene SimmonsWhen 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 SimmonsIf a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
Gene SimmonsBefore a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.
Gene SimmonsI 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 SimmonsFiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
Gene SimmonsI'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 SimmonsI don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
Gene SimmonsFirst, 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 SimmonsPrince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
Gene SimmonsI know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.
Gene SimmonsNever underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
Gene SimmonsThere are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
Gene SimmonsIt'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 grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
Gene SimmonsI voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.
Gene SimmonsMy background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.
Gene SimmonsSugar-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 SimmonsIn 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.
Gene SimmonsLadies, 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.
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