Song Quotes by Angus Young

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

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I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

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The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.

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In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

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My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

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I just go where the guitar takes me.

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I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

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We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

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I tried a Les Paul when I was a lot younger. I tried the Les Paul, and because of the weight of…

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You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I…

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I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

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A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

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The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

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From the first album, we've had songs like 'The Jack' that are blues based. We also did it in 'Ride On,' where…

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The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a…

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Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every…

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We always try to get new songs. That's what AC/DC has always been about. You can listen to what we do, and…

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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill…

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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…

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Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model…

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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…

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I think what AC/DC does best is play live. That's when everything comes together. Even after you make a studio album, when…

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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…

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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with:…

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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…

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I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get…

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I never thought we'd be put into any sort of historical thing. When we started as a band, it was a day-to-day…

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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…

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I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's…

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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…

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In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic.…

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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…

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I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles,…

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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…

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