Aerosmith Quotes
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I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
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I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.
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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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Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
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I'm not one of those celebrities that will just put my name on something and expect to get a check.
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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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You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.
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I've always been a coffee-lovin' fool, from the time I was a kid.
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Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .
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There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me.
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Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
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I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.
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Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.
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I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.
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I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.
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I'm really just a country boy.
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I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'
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As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.
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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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Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they're coming from a completely different place. That's always been important. It's part of being in a band.
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Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.
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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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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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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.