Angus Young Quotes

In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.