Angus Young Quotes

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Rock music is niche.

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands - Guns N' Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

I do love my rock music.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.