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I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

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Angus Young
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 31
Guitarist
Songwriter
Glasgow
Scotland
Angus McKinnon Young
Heart
Blues
Fingers
Devil

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I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
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I just go where the guitar takes me.
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Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
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I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
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Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.
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Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
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Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse
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There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
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The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
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Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'
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I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
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I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.
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You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.
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That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
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Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
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We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.
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My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.
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A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
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