Steven Tyler > Quotes

“Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.”
― Steven Tyler

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

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

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

“We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing”
― Steven Tyler

“Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies”
― Steven Tyler

“Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

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

“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”
― Steven Tyler

“Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?”
― 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

“Well hellfire save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches!”
― 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, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”
― Steven Tyler

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

“To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

“I was born when the Dead Sea was still sick.”
― Steven Tyler

“Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“Sex is the strongest force in the universe. Forget about the Grand Unifying Theory, Stephen Hawking, I’ll tell you what it is: women. Aren’t women the strongest sex? What force is more magnetic than that? It’s not just pussy. We’re attracted to women for their energy. We’re attracted to their fluidness, their ability to nurture a baby without even knowing how, to be able to put up with screaming and crying and colic and shitty diapers where men would go, “I’m fucking outta here! I’m gonna go kill me a saber-toothed woolly mammoth an’bring it on home to eat tonight. Wa-haaaaaa!” We don’t have tits; we couldn’t nourish a gnat.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“You've got to lose to know how to win.”
― Steven Tyler

“Sure, we're the sum of our experiences. If you listen to that song I wrote in 1969, "Dream On," you might get a different view. I may not have been quite sure of what I was doing, but I was on to something.”
― steven tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

“These are war stories. When you’re on tour, short of loss of life and limb – or actual death – you have no time to get sick like a normal person. There are no days off. You’re working yourself to death. The only thing that got us through was the cocaine.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“By the end of the seventies, some nights I was so out of it our road manager, Joe Baptista, would have to carry me onstage. The promoter would be sitting there in the dressing room with a look of horror on his face. I’m almost comatose, he’s hyper-ventilating. He thinks he’s presenting the legendary cash cow Aerosmith, and now he’s going to lose his shirt because the lead singer’s down for the count. Is he dead or alive? What am I going to do? “You’d better get him on that stage. I don’t know how he’s going to do this how, but we’ve got too many kids out there.”

Not to worry. The minute my feet hit the stage, I’m off and running. I don’t know how it happens, but hey, you get up there in front of twenty thousand people and it’s a high in itself, it’s a charged space.

Still, the train kept a rollin’ and we kept getting high until one night in late ’78, I don’t know where we were, maybe in Springfield, Illinois, I blacked out in the middle of “Reefer Headed Woman.”

I got a reefer headed woman
She fell right down from the sky
Well, I gots to drink me two fifths of whiskey
Just to get half as high
When the —

And then I hit the stage like a fish out of water.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“I may be a monster, but I’m a sensitive monster…

I went to church, I have a sister, I’m Italian, and I’ve probably seen the sun set and rise as many times as anyone. I liked cutting the umbilical cord at my son Taj’s birth. I liked smelling the placenta. I like the act of making love rather than saying, “I fucked you!” If anybody wants to see the spiritual side of Steven Tyler, well, it’s fucking there!”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

“The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.”
― 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, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“Everybody's got their dues in life to pay”
― 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, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“Sometimes I feel compelled to read parts of these memoirs so I can remember things about me that I don’t remember.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir