Top 100 Steven Tyler Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.”

— Steven Tyler

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2. “Fake it until you make it.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

4. “It’s amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.”

— Steven Tyler

5. “Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter’n sing for the tears.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

7. “Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.”

— Steven Tyler

8. “I know why we’re here. We’re all here because we’re not all there.”

— Steven Tyler

9. “You’ve got to lose to know how to win.”

— Steven Tyler

10. “Half my life is in book’s written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.”

— Steven Tyler

11. “My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”

— Steven Tyler

12. “Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.”

— Steven Tyler

13. “Some days you’re the bug, some days you’re the windshield.”

— Steven Tyler

14. “I’m really just a country boy.”

— Steven Tyler

15. “Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!”

— Steven Tyler

16. “If you have a candle, the light won’t glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

18. “To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.”

— Steven Tyler

19. “They’ve been stepping on my toes for years. It’s just a reason to get new boots.”

— Steven Tyler

20. “I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let’s see, I guess that makes me 19.”

— Steven Tyler

21. “I live for CAN-ing other people’s can’ts.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

24. “In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!”

— Steven Tyler

25. “I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

27. “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

28. “Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.”

— Steven Tyler

29. “What you don’t deal with rules your life.”

— Steven Tyler

30. “Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.”

— Steven Tyler

31. “Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety – now that is the good stuff!”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

33. “Never judge a book by it’s cover or who you’re going to love by your lover.”

— Steven Tyler

34. “Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

36. “Now that I’m sober, I deserve to get laid.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

38. “Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.”

— Steven Tyler

39. “Everyone’s got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that’s really all I look at.”

— Steven Tyler

40. “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

41. “Dogs have a lot of love.”

— Steven Tyler

42. “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

43. “In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I’m that good.”

— Steven Tyler

44. “Guitar players never listen to lead singers.”

— Steven Tyler

45. “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

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

— Steven Tyler

47. “I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.”

— Steven Tyler

48. “I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

50. “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