Malcolm Young Quotes

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

Songs are more powerful than books.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.

Music is only love looking for words.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.