Angus Young Quotes

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.

I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music that's going to fit in this pop world or go on the charts, etcetera, etcetera.' Hopefully, enough people like it so it becomes popular.

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.