Aerosmith Quotes
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Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for 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 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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I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.
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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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Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
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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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Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
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There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.
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In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
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The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
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Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
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Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.
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Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.
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Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.
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Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
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I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
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I can't live off the ego.
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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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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
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If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!