Steven Tyler
Stephen Victor Tallarico, better known as Steven Tyler, is an American musician with Italian ancestry (His grandfather was Giovanni Tallarico, born and raised in Nicotera, Calabria), songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the frontman and lead singer for the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler was also known for his heavy drug and alcohol abuse, though he completed drug rehabilitation in 1986 and maintained sobriety for over 20 years until he started abusing painkillers in 2009 and has since returned to rehab. During his high-energy stage performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand. He was recently named 99th on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers. and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Aerosmith, and he was the presenter when AC/DC won the place in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. He is also ranked 3rd on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.
“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”
“Sure, we're the sum of our experiences. If you listen to that song I wrote in 1969, "Dream On," you might get a different view. I may not have been quite sure of what I was doing, but I was on to something.”
“Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .”
“Well hellfire save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches!”
“I was born when the Dead Sea was still sick.”
“Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?”
“Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”
“You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.”
“If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”
“Half my life is in book's written pages.Live and learn from fools and from sages.”
“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”
“Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies”
“You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin'—it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move.”
“We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing”
“Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.”
“My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”
“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”