People - myself included - expect a certain standard from me. I always have to elaborate or improve on my playing. My… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
If I played something incorrectly, I whipped myself mercilessly. Whenever I made a mistake, I made sure that I would never allow… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego.… — 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
What I've done from the very beginning is play everything with extreme accuracy. I never said to myself, 'Okay, if I put… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone… — 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 didn't really understand the difference then, but something struck me about the inversions and the diminished chords... they weren't as bluesy, and I loved it. I found out, that was very baroque-influenced. — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share
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
