Angus Young Quotes

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

We started 'Heaven And Earth' in 2016. That was probably the heaviest touring year of my whole life. We probably did almost 200 shows in 2016. We went into the studio, and I honestly didn't know what the album was going to be. So I just kind of started picking songs that I liked.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a time in a musician's life.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.