Steven Tyler Quotes

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

Chickenfoot, my relationship with those guys is great.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

I wanna go play my music in a club.

I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I need to be able to rock out.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

When people get emotional and sing the song with you - it's an incredible thing.

That's the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

I guess music is very global.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

When you're out dancing, you could be anywhere in the world, but it's only the dance that matters.

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.