Steven Tyler Quotes

If you don’t have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.

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

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.

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.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

It’s amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you’ll be alright.

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

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.

I can’t live off the ego.

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.

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

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

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.

It doesn’t feel good when you’re put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

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

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.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

What you don’t deal with rules your life.

Fake it until you make it.

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

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

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

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

Dogs have a lot of love.

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

As good as I am, I’m nothing without my band.

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.

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don’t realize how important music is to kids.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

I’m not sure about the selling part, but I’ve always found that the things I’ve worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.