A biography for Angus Younghasn’t been written yet.
“I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you write songs for other 17-year-olds. We stopped growing musically when we were 17. We still write songs for 17-year-olds.”
“I've been shocked for a long time in a lot of circumstances. I get shocked when they say, 'Hey, we're paying ya.'”
“We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.”
“You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.”
“My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.”
“Riffs are a repeating thing. They come back to you. Some of the things on 'Back in Black' were ideas we had knocked around on tracks before that: 'That bit - maybe we should take a chunk of that and slug it in here.'”
“You have to put a market value on what you do.”
“We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.”
“The school suit allows me to be an extrovert. Basically, I'm the opposite of what I am on stage.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.”
“The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.”
“In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.”
“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.”
“I'm constantly surprised when people say, 'But you haven't changed!' It's like saying, 'You've got a wheel. Now why don't you make it a square?'”
“If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.”
“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.”
“Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.”
“There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.”