Angus Young Quotes (19 quotes)

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„That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.“
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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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„I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.“
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„A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.“
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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 the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.“
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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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„Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.“
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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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„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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„My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.“
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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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„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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„Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.“
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„There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.“
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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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„I just go where the guitar takes me.“
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„We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.“
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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 was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'“
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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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Angus Young
Author born: March 31, 1959
Nationality: Scottish
Author Profession: Musician

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