Steven Tyler Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went! — Steven Tyler

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS. — Steven Tyler

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

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. — Steven Tyler

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield. — Steven Tyler

Dogs have a lot of love. — Steven Tyler

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row. — Steven Tyler

Life's a journey, not a destination. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll ... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two. — Steven Tyler

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

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. — Steven Tyler

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn. — Steven Tyler

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

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

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods. — Steven Tyler

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

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

Gay sex just doesn't do it for me. I tried it one time when I was younger, but just didn't dig it. — Steven Tyler

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing. — Steven Tyler

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes. — Steven Tyler

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

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

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

Guitar players never listen to lead singers. — Steven Tyler

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

There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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

Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies — Steven Tyler

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

You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap. — Steven Tyler

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

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever. — Steven Tyler

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

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

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

Not long after that I was walking along the beach, I dropped to my knees, I began crying because I realized that I'd gotten sober, but I hadn't done it for my kids, or even my own health. I hadn't thought about them when I was using, so why would I have gotten sober for them, either. Drugs robbed me of my spirituality and compassion, only later to find I'd lost Liv and Mia as well - I cried when they forgave me for my past behaviors but I'll be working on it for the rest of my life.

What would I say to my children? We may have picked the key but they are their own song. We don't own them, they only pass through us, as Kahlil Gibran says in The Prophet, they don't owe us anything either. — Steven Tyler

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

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

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers. — Steven Tyler

It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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

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

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. — Steven Tyler

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

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. — Steven Tyler

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life. — Steven Tyler

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

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

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. — Steven Tyler

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap. — Steven Tyler

I'm really just a country boy. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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' ... — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.' — Steven Tyler

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

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

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. — Steven Tyler

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

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it. — Steven Tyler

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band. — Steven Tyler

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods. — Steven Tyler

Well hellfire save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches! — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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

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

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. — Steven Tyler

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason. — Steven Tyler

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

What you don't deal with rules your life. — Steven Tyler

We can look, but we'd better not touch. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

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. — Steven Tyler

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward. — Steven Tyler