Gene Simmons
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"Gene Simmons" is an Israeli-born American rock music/rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, and television personality. Known by his stage persona "The Demon", he is the bass guitarist/co-lead vocalist of Kiss (band)/Kiss, the rock music/rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. With Kiss, Simmons has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.

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I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

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My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

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You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

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James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

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I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

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And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist.

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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

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When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

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