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• I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
  • Interview for the French TV channel M6 at the release of the album Razor's Edge.

• If it was happening, I'd call it Heavenly Beast. If it wasn't happening, I usually call it Arsehole.
  • When asked if he specifically named his guitar. From Rolling Stone Magazine.

• 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.
  • Interview with NME magazine in October 1976

• 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...
  • Interview with Sounds magazine in June 1976

• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.
  • Interview with the Atlanta Gazette in May 1979

• We're a rock group. We're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
  • Bonfire Box Set

• 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.’
  • 1983 Interview in West Hollywood, California (Sunset Marquis Hotel)

• The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
  • Blender, 2003

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• "People always say we've made the same album 12 times. But they're really lying, it's actually 13 times."
• "Oh, no! me Mum would kill me for that!"
  • On the alleged satanic message of the song 'Highway to Hell'
• "Lyrics: wasted time in between solos."

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• "Angus Young's frantic over-the-top soloing has sparked many of AC/DC's biggest tunes. But beneath the reckless theatrics and naughty schoolboy images lurks a skilled guitarist."
  • Askold Bulk