Angus Young Quotes

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.