Stevie Young Quotes

United Kingdom, Musician
December 11, 1956

Stephen Crawford Young Jr. is a Scottish musician, and the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He officially joined the band in September 2014, replacing his uncle, Malcolm Young who retired due to dementia. He had previously filled in for Malcolm on AC/DC's 1988 US tour.

Also known as Guitarist, Vocalist

You get lonely, but I’m a loner. I need friends, I need people, but I’m essentially a loner person as far as big family commitments go.

Stevie Young
- Family
- Loner
- Commitments
I like to fool with the stuff and I go up in my little studio and once you get into it, you may stay there hours doing it.

Stevie Young
- Doing
- Hours
- Studio

I’ve seen a lot of musicians play that, and I don’t want to do that because I have a saying that most artists are failures as human beings.

Stevie Young
- Artists
- Saying
- Failures
I never thought in terms of career. I just saw it in terms of being able to play and sing and doing what you wanted to, and being a free guy. I never had ambitions to be a star or anything like that. I wanted to do my own thing and do it my way, and people could take it or leave it, which was a pretty arrogant attitude.

Stevie Young
Between getting some royalties and doing some gigs that I really wanna do, I can make a living, I have made a living, but it was a lot of hard times in between there, just struggling and trying to find some kind of footing somewhere doing something.

Stevie Young
- Living
- Struggling
- Gigs