Top 50 Quotes by Steven Tyler

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.

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.