Aerosmith Quotes
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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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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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I'm really just a country boy.
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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 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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Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
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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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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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There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me.
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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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The roads in Boston suck. Highways included. There are potholes and bumps all over the place. It's not a fun place to drive.
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Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
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It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
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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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... 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 don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.
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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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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 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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I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.
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Boston will always be home to me.
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If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.