Steven Tyler Quotes
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
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Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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Guitar players never listen to lead singers.
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The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.
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In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.
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I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
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But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.
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I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.
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Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant
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Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
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The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
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I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
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The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.
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I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
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To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.
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I love the woods even more than the ocean.
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Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it.
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She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.
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It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.
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I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
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Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
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Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
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I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.