Scottish - Musician | March 31, 1959 -
I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young
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You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.
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To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
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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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Key to longevity... drinking embalming fluid every year.
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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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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.
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In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.
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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.
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We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.
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I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.
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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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