My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence. — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India,… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I don't work with anybody on the music, of course. But my God, some of the lyrics that other people have written… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it.… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I am so extremely busy with what I am doing myself. When I am not playing music, I am usually doing other… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
A lot of people probably get the idea that I'm this extremely calculated kind of guy, and in a lot of ways,… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
The business has changed dramatically from what it was even just a few years ago. Music isn't even distributed the same way… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
'Spellbound' has a lot of guitar playing on it, obviously, but I wanted to keep it with a more straightforward beat. It doesn't have… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote music, but… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway. — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know this, but I started out as a blues-based player, and then, when I realized after playing 18 hours… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel, and I… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television the day… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then do the… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
To get a feel for the right-hand picking technique, you have to let the pick 'fall' from string to string as if you were… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
