Steven Tyler Quotes

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

I always say the person who taught me how to sing indirectly because I listened to her all the time was Brandy. I fell in love with her voice when I was six years old. I always loved Brandy.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in '95 in Charlotte. For 'Let Her Cry,' I was just trying to write 'She Talks to Angels.'

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.

Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

It probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen... Fleetwood Mac... I mean, that's all so inherent in us that when we're making records now, we take a lot from the artists who are around us.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.