Angus Young Quotes

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something extra for the Pantera fan.

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at in the moment.

When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we're pretty grass roots as a band. We've done all that together.

It's very, very exciting for me to hear my songs on the radio and to play shows and have people know the words.

We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.

We love to make records, and we love to tour.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

There was just a moment when I fell in love with singing, probably when I started listening to Ben Howard and his album 'I Forget Where We Were.' I fell in love with that album, and that album really made me fall in love with singing.

I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that I can introduce some new listeners to this world of instrumental music.

It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.

I'm so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.

I love that - you get everything from seven-year-olds to 87-year-olds at Passenger gigs.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.