Steven Tyler Quotes
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It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
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It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.
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I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
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Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.
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I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'
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Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
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We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
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You know...sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.
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I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.
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Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
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Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.
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I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.
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Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
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If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I
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A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
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As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
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I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
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Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.
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I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.
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I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.
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I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.
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I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
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I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.
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People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.