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I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'
You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.
By the end of the seventies, some nights I was so out of it our road manager, Joe Baptista, would have to carry me onstage. The promoter would be sitting there in the dressing room with a look of horror on his face. I'm almost comatose, he's hyper-ventilating. He thinks he's presenting the legendary cash cow Aerosmith, and now he's going to lose his shirt because the lead singer's down for the count. Is he dead or alive? What am I going to do? "You'd better get him on that stage. I don't know how he's going to do this how, but we've got too many kids out there."
Not to worry. The minute my feet hit the stage, I'm off and running. I don't know how it happens, but hey, you get up there in front of twenty thousand people and it's a high in itself, it's a charged space.
Still, the train kept a rollin' and we kept getting high until one night in late '78, I don't know where we were, maybe in Springfield, Illinois, I blacked out in the middle of "Reefer Headed Woman."
I got a reefer headed woman
She fell right down from the sky
Well, I gots to drink me two fifths of whiskey
Just to get half as high
When the -
And then I hit the stage like a fish out of water.
Sure, we're the sum of our experiences. If you listen to that song I wrote in 1969, "Dream On," you might get a different view. I may not have been quite sure of what I was doing, but I was on to something.
The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
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.
Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.
I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.
I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.
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.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.
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.
I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.
Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
I was born when the Dead Sea was still sick.
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages.
I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
I can't live off the ego.
I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.
Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.
Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!
The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.
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.
Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it.
In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
Sex is the strongest force in the universe. Forget about the Grand Unifying Theory, Stephen Hawking, I'll tell you what it is: women. Aren't women the strongest sex? What force is more magnetic than that? It's not just pussy. We're attracted to women for their energy. We're attracted to their fluidness, their ability to nurture a baby without even knowing how, to be able to put up with screaming and crying and colic and shitty diapers where men would go, "I'm fucking outta here! I'm gonna go kill me a saber-toothed woolly mammoth an'bring it on home to eat tonight. Wa-haaaaaa!" We don't have tits; we couldn't nourish a gnat.
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.
Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
I love the woods even more than the ocean.
To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.
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.
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man than I
Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.
Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.
I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
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.
Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
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.
People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.
The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.
They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.
Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.
My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF ... It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.
I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.
You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.
It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
You've got to lose to know how to win.
I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.
When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.
Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.
Well hellfire save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches!
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.
It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.
I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.
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.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing
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.
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.
Mary had a little sheep,
With the sheep she went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram,
And Mary had a little lamb.
I live for CAN-ing other people's can'ts.
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.
In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.
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.
She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.
Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
We can look, but we'd better not touch.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!
Dogs have a lot of love.
I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.
We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!
I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.
I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.
I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way.
So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.