Steven Tyler quotes

If you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you, or you'll be way ahead of everyone else. (Steven Tyler)
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
Steven Tyler
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.
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
As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
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
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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
Fake it until you make it.
Steven Tyler
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
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I'm really just a country boy. (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.
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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
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
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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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
When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.
Steven Tyler
I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.
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 like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
Steven Tyler
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new. (Steven Tyler)
Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler
I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
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