Top 100 Steven Tyler Quotes
#1. If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
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#2. 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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#3. I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
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#4. Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.
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#5. Guitar players never listen to lead singers.
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#6. Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
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#9. They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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.
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#13. If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man than I
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#14. 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.
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#15. It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF ... It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
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#17. I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'
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#18. 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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#19. 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.
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#21. I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.
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#22. Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
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#23. Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.
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#24. 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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#25. In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!
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#26. 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.
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#27. Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll ... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
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#32. I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.
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#35. Once upon a time ... " "In the beginning was ... " That's the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives' tale blues riff begins with "Woke up this mornin' ...
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#36. Gay sex just doesn't do it for me. I tried it one time when I was younger, but just didn't dig it.
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#37. I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.
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#38. I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.
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#39. I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.
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#41. It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.
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#42. 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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#44. Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
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#45. My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
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#46. You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.
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#47. Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.
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#48. I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
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#49. Well hellfire save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches!
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#50. I love the woods even more than the ocean.
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#51. Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
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#52. 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.
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#53. But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.
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#55. I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
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#57. I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.
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#58. But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.
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#59. I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.
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#60. I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.
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#61. Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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#62. 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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#63. I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.
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#64. The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
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#65. So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.
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#66. I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.
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#67. The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
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#68. To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.
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#69. Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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#70. I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
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#71. Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.
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#72. The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
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#73. 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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#74. Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies
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#77. The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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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#81. Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!
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#82. Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant
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#83. I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.
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#84. It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.
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#85. If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.
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#86. I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.
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#87. Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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#94. 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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#95. Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
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#96. It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.
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#97. 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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#98. This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
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#99. As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
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#100. Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
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