Top 100 Steven Tyler Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Steven Tyler

53. “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

54. “It’s as clear as the balls on a tall dog.”

— Steven Tyler

55. “Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

57. “Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant.”

— Steven Tyler

58. “I don’t think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that’s forever.”

— Steven Tyler

59. “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.”

— Steven Tyler

60. “The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.”

— Steven Tyler

61. “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

62. “We can look, but we’d better not touch.”

— Steven Tyler

63. “The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.”

— Steven Tyler

64. “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

65. “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

66. “There’s nothing like an Aerosmith groove.”

— Steven Tyler

67. “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

68. “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

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

— Steven Tyler

70. “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

71. “I’ll tell you what’s fun – finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.”

— Steven Tyler

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.”

— Steven Tyler

78. “So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.”

— Steven Tyler

79. “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

80. “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

81. “What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.”

— Steven Tyler

82. “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

83. “I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said ‘No, man, I’ve got enough problems.’”

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

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

— Steven Tyler

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That’s fine with me, because we’ve borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don’t want to sound like we’re copying anyone, including ourselves, so we’re moving on.”

— Steven Tyler

90. “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

91. “I love the woods even more than the ocean.”

— Steven Tyler

92. “I’m very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.”

— Steven Tyler

93. “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

94. “Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.”

— Steven Tyler

95. “When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.”

— Steven Tyler

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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.”

— Steven Tyler

100. “This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.”

— Steven Tyler