Angus Young Quotes

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Angus Young

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 31, 1959

I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.

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I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

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We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

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I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

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Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

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The media, being what it is, is always looking for the next new thing. There are still bands out there playing, no matter what the new thing is. The Stones go out there, and people go see them without records or even airplay.

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Key to longevity... drinking embalming fluid every year.

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I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you write songs for other 17-year-olds. We stopped growing musically when we were 17. We still write songs for 17-year-olds.

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I just go where the guitar takes me.

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For the two hours I climb on stage, I become the schoolboy. But as soon as it is over, I get off stage and go home and get told to wipe my feet before I come in.

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My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.

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If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I've got the brain of a teenager anyway.

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When I was young, and I would see bands playing, I would dig the rock & roll and get excited, but when they would start to take the pace down, my attention span would start going.

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Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

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The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

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You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

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Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

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Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

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