Quotes By Ace Frehley

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

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.

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.

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.

America is huge.

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

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.

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'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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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!