Angus Young Quotes

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

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they're extremely different from one another, and I've never made the same album twice.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

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

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.

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.

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

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

When I was in my former band Downhere, I did everything I could not to remind people of Freddie Mercury, but it became almost hilarious how many people compared me to him to the point where it felt like it was working against the band when we tested singles at radio.

My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.

I'm always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So it's kind of like the standard rock sound.

I used to love Deep Purple and Ian Paice.

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

Tame Impala's music revisits a time when guitar effects and studio tricks were music's newest frontiers; when rock was barely old enough to drive and violently threw conventional ideas out the window.