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People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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I'm not the kind of guy who hems and haws about how he feels.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith -
Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
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.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
The coffee's good in Italy. It's good in Spain. It's good in Istanbul. The coffee's not so good in America.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith
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The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
And when it comes to the music, the fans are the most important thing because they get you and put you where you are. And so often - too often - that whole idea gets cast aside.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith -
You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.
Joe Perry Aerosmith