Angus Young Phenomenal Quotes — Quotes OF Quote
By — Abhijit Mondal
The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there’s no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.
— Angus Young
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.
— Angus Young
When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.
— Angus Young
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.
— Angus Young
We never go overboard and above people’s heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we’ve always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.
— Angus Young
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.
— Angus Young
The hardcore fans have hung with us because they go, ‘Hey, they don’t disappoint.’ And we stick to that style.
— Angus Young
Over the years, the critics have said, ‘They never change.’ Maybe the little guy’s got a new color of school uniform. I always thought, ‘Well, what were we going to change into?’ A jazz band? A keyboard band?
— Angus Young
The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It’s a hard thing.
— Angus Young
I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis — I love all that stuff.
— Angus Young
Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines. They didn’t even sell them at the time in news agents and stuff.
— Angus Young
Most people can do what I do — they can do guitar solos — but they can’t do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.
— Angus Young
There’s more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.
— Angus Young
From the first album, we’ve had songs like ‘The Jack’ that are blues based. We also did it in ‘Ride On,’ where we went into the blues.
— Angus Young
For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what’s going to happen next.
— Angus Young
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 thing. You sort of played a gig, you got your money and thought, ‘OK, where’s tomorrow’s gig?’ You never thought you’d get past a summer.
— Angus Young
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.
— Angus Young
I think we’re just one of those bands that we know what we do best.
— Angus Young
By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.
— Angus Young
What we admit to is being a rock n’ roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.
— Angus Young
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