The Stillness

“When we were making Just Push Play, we recorded our empty room. If you record that hall noise and sing over it, it’s like letting the hall embrace you. It has chairs and equipment and people. The room IS another instrument. The room is in the band.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir  

“If you go into a recording studio that’s soundproofed, something just feels wrong to your ears. Especially when they close the door—that’s sound deprivation, it’s anechoic, without echo, without sound.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir 

“My spiritual ideas didn’t come from the Lord’s Prayer or church or pictures in the Bible, they came from the stillness.”
― Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir