Steven Tyler Quotes

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.

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.

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

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

Dogs have a lot of love.

I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

What you don't deal with rules your life.

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.

It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.

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.

Fake it until you make it.