Angus Young Quotes

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Angus Young

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 31, 1959

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

Angus Young

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

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I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

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We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.

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I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It's like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, 'Hey, that's for me.'

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I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go dead and conk out. And if you tread on the lead going to the pedal, something would always go wrong. Or some crazy kid would pull the lead out just at the moment when you're about to do your big number on it.

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In the real world, people just get on with their lives. And that's where AC/DC come in.

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With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always, 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

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The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It's a hard thing.

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With seven boys and one sister, there was always a lot of music in the house. A few of my brothers were playing instruments, so it was from hearing that, coupled with discovering early rock, which triggered me to pick up a guitar and try to pick out the notes.

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We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.

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For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

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We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

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With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up with something that's nice and simple without getting something that's hard but easy.

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We're not the prettiest bunch of animals in the world.

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