"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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"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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"There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers."
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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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"Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing."
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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 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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"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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"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."
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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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"With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime."
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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."
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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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"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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"Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done."
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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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"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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"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."
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