Angus Young

“We played by feel. We felt as though you could put us on any stage, and we would find a way to win that crowd over. We had that attitude: We can't fail. You might not like it right now, but you will.”

“When we play live, it's always been a do or die effort. And everything we've ever done has always had that approach.”

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

“I have the Internet, but the first that happens with it is my machine will crash. I get by when it's operating. What would I know about updating?”

“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.”

“I've always been someone who thought it didn't matter where you were playing. I always shot for the best you could get. It never bothered me if it was small or it was big.”

“By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.”

“We just stuck to what we did best. Maybe that's why people plug into us and go 'They never change.' We're reliable. A bit like old shoes.”

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

“When you sign on and say, 'I'm gonna do this and that,' it's always good to say at the end of it, 'I've done all I said I would do.'”

“In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.”

“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.”

“What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.”

“When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.”

“The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.”

“Key to longevity... drinking embalming fluid every year.”

“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.”

“Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every now and then, we'd slip in one of our own songs, and we found that we were getting away with it - nobody seemed to know these were original tracks.”

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

“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.”