Aerosmith Quotes
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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 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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There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me.
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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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Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
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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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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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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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... 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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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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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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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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They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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Boston will always be home to me.
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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 guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
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I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
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Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
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My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!
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I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.