Angus Young Quotes

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

I get a lot from people who are in oppressed situations and say they were gonna give up. A lot of people have reached out and said they were in bad situations and really need me to be successful.

Crying is not an option.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.