Steven Tyler Quotes

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.

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.

Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.

There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.

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.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

... 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.

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.

I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

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.

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.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

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.

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.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

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.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and how much they like me.I'll give 'em that 'C'mon you don't mean that' routine, but in my heart I know where they're coming from. If I had grown up in the '70's and was into rock n' roll, I know the kind of impact Aerosmith would have had on me. I know the kind of impact that Elvis and Jagger had on me, and while I'm not comparing myself to those guys, I can relate.