Steven Tyler Quotes
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Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
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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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Fake it until you make it.
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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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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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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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Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
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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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Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.
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You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move.
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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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I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.
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I'm really just a country boy.
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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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When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's.
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My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.
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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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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
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Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
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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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Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!
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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
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I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.
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My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!