Angus Young Quotes

• I just go where the guitar takes me.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn’t stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

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

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

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

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Birth:	31st March, 1955
Nationality:	Australian, Scottish
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Record Producer, Songwriter

About

Angus McKinnon Young was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He  is a Scottish-born Australian guitarist best known as a co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. Known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits, and popularisation of Chuck Berry's duckwalk, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Young as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time. In 2003, he and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. AC/DC have remained together since their formation in 1974 and have released 15 studio albums. The band have shipped over 200 million albums worldwide, with 70 million certified units in the US. Their 1980 studio album, Back in Black, is accountable for 50 million of those worldwide sales and is the third all time highest-selling album worldwide.

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