Angus Young Quotes

I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

When you're trying to come up with an idea for a movie it's actually the hardest part - the germ of the idea. Inevitably you think of something that would be great and then discover that it was on an episode of The Simpsons.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.