Gene Simmons Quotes

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.

What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

I make music for the whole world, not just one borough.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.

South America was amazing, very powerful. We didn't imagine they like K-pop there and they loved it!

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

I've largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.

We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.

The world's music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in with all of that.

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk music.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn't know what he's talking about in all of his tracks, but I'm a fan. It's rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I'm convinced that my music can work in the U.S.

I think festivals have a responsibility to show different genres of music to people.

Festival line-ups should have all types of music. It's part of cultural growth.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

I've been to India, Jordan, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The States, and a lot of countries in Europe, just to visit... I wanted to make music to connect all of these influences, and make a multicultural music with these experiences.

Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience.