Steven Tyler Quotes
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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.
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I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
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I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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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.
