A biography for Angus Younghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The hardcore fans have hung with us because they go, 'Hey, they don't disappoint.' And we stick to that style.”
“We're not the prettiest bunch of animals in the world.”
“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.”
“I don't regard myself as a soloist. It's a color; I put it in for excitement. It's not great loss if a solo has to go. We've made songs without solos.”
“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.'”
“Australia is the place I know best.”
“The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It's a hard thing.”
“A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'”
“I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's the rhythm thing that's way more impressive and important to a band.”
“When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.”
“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.”
“I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.”
“We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.”
“You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'”
“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.”
“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.”