Frasi di Gene Simmons

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Gene Simmons

Data di nascita: 25. Agosto 1949

Gene Simmons, nato Chaim Weitz , è un bassista, cantante, produttore discografico e attore israeliano naturalizzato statunitense, membro fondatore del gruppo rock dei KISS, gruppo del quale fa tuttora parte insieme all'altro fondatore Paul Stanley. Si tratta degli unici due membri originali ancora nella band. Oltre che in campo musicale, ha lavorato anche in quello cinematografico e televisivo. È anche un noto produttore e talent scout. Infatti fece emergere molte importanti hard rock e heavy metal band come Van Halen, Legs Diamond, Angel, House of Lords, Keel, Black 'N Blue, Smashed Gladys, Silent Rage, Doro, Wendy O. Williams e la band giapponese EZO.

Frasi Gene Simmons

„Le rock band sono parecchio simili alle squadre di football: se uno si droga e combina dei casini, prendi qualcun altro che è orgoglioso di indossare l’uniforme e di far parte del gruppo.“

— Gene Simmons

„The best philanthropy is anonymous charity.“

— Gene Simmons
Context: The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.

„We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.“

— Gene Simmons
Mojo magazine (December 2009), p. 40.

„Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.“

— Gene Simmons
19 February, 2010. At "Viva Elvis Cirque du soleil.

„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.“

— Gene Simmons

„KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.“

— Gene Simmons

„"You can't buy love with money." Only a poor person says that.“

— Gene Simmons

„Anybody 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 Simmons

„Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.“

— Gene Simmons

„The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.“

— Gene Simmons

„My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.“

— Gene Simmons

„Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.“

— Gene Simmons
"Bang Your Head" book

„I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.“

— Gene Simmons
About Prince's death. [http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gene-simmons-on-prince-how-pathetic-that-he-killed-himself-20160510] (May 10, 2016)