Bon Scott Quotes

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.