Steven Tyler Quotes
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Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.
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Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.
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Fake it until you make it.
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What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
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It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.
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I'm really just a country boy.
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Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.
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They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
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I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.
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If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
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A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don't want to sound like we're copying anyone, including ourselves, so we're moving on.
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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
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I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
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Life's a journey, not a destination.
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Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!
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People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.
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In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!
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Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.
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Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.
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But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.
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Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me.