110+ Steven Tyler Quotes On Vocal, Energetic And Iconic
Steven Tyler is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith. He is also a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and former television music competition judge. Tyler is known for his distinctive high-pitched voice, his energetic stage presence, and his wide vocal range. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Steven Tyler on life, vocal, energetic.
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Top 10 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
- Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
- 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.
- Life's a journey, not a destination.
- As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
- Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
Steven Tyler Short Quotes
- Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!
- It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
- Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.
- The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
- The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
- Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
- I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.
- This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
- Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
- Fake it until you make it.
Steven Tyler Quotes About 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. — Steven Tyler
Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life. — 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
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
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
I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth. — Steven Tyler
Maybe life is random, but I doubt it. — Steven Tyler
What you don't deal with rules your life. — Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler Famous Quotes And Sayings
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
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
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 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'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
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
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
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
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
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
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. — Steven Tyler
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I — 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
I'm really just a country boy. — 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's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light. — Steven Tyler
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. — Steven Tyler
I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS. — Steven Tyler
When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking. — Steven Tyler
Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant — Steven Tyler
I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19. — Steven Tyler
We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing — Steven Tyler
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two. — Steven Tyler
I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together. — Steven Tyler
Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover. — Steven Tyler
Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid. — 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
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. — 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
You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move. — Steven Tyler
I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods. — Steven Tyler
My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out. — Steven Tyler
Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. — Steven Tyler
Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you. — Steven Tyler
Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are. — Steven Tyler
I can't live off the ego. — 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
My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went! — 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
It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog. — Steven Tyler
I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me. — 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
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
People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys. — Steven Tyler
Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people. — Steven Tyler
So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues. — Steven Tyler
It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason. — 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
Guitar players never listen to lead singers. — Steven Tyler
I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets. — Steven Tyler
I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine. — 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
I get the whole thing, I can't talk about it. But they're talking and they got an offer. I hope Axl[Rose] can see the greater picture and not be mad at Duff [McKagan] and Slash. — Steven Tyler
They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots. — 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
I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever. — Steven Tyler
I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks. — 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
I love the woods even more than the ocean. — Steven Tyler
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new. — 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
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. — Steven Tyler
You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap. — 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
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. — Steven Tyler
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. — 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
I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting. — Steven Tyler
I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes. — Steven Tyler
Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears. — Steven Tyler
I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about. — Steven Tyler
It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright. — 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. — Steven Tyler
I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that. — Steven Tyler
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield. — 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
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. — Steven Tyler
Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child? — Steven Tyler
Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little! — Steven Tyler
If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift. — Steven Tyler
In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one! — 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
Life Lessons by Steven Tyler
- Steven Tyler has taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. He has shown us that hard work and dedication can take us to great heights, even if we experience setbacks along the way.
- He has also taught us to be true to ourselves and to embrace our unique qualities. By being unapologetically himself, Tyler has inspired us to be proud of who we are and to never be ashamed of our differences.
- Finally, Tyler has taught us to never stop learning and growing. He has continued to reinvent himself throughout his career, showing us that it is never too late to try something new and to keep pushing ourselves to reach our goals.
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