Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Tyler - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.

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

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

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.

To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.

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.

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.

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

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.

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.

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.

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.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.

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

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

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

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.

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.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

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’. . . .

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

You know...sometimes I'll be looking out at the audience and I'll be in the middle of a song, and I'll just stop dead. I'll look out at them, and think what is this... There's one thing that keeps me doing it though, I really love it, I believe in it.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

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.

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.

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

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I

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.

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.

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

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

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

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

There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove

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

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

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

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.

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.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

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.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

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.

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

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.

I live for CAN-ing other people's can'ts.