Quotes By Ace Frehley

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

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.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

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.

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

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've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

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

I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

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 had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

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

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.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

America is huge.

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

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

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

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

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'.

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

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

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

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