Angus Young Quotes

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.

Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even the actual writing process, but conceptualizing, getting into the songs. That's why I stopped doing mixtapes.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

The model of a composer.

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.