Ace Frehley Quotes

"My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar."

"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."

"I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better."

"I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky."

"I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself."

"One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter."

"That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert."

"I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet."

"A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs."

"I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth."

"I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love."

"Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one."

"I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better."

"For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money."

"I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record."

"As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking."

"When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off."

"Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me."

"I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world."

"People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground."

"I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received."

"I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late."

"We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking."

"I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life."

"I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations."

"If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?"

"I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us."

"Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there."

"By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway."

"I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'."