Song Quotes by Yngwie Malmsteen

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I've been playing for aeons now, but way, way back, I remember Eddie Van Halen came out ,and I loved his playing.…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone - you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I've used Fender Strats with Marshalls since forever, though since I last played London, I've switched to my YJM Seymour Duncan pickups,…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

To get a feel for the right-hand picking technique, you have to let the pick 'fall' from string to string as if…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it.…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Every record store and record chain has folded; they don't exist. They do not exist. And the only two outlets that would…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

If I played something incorrectly, I whipped myself mercilessly. Whenever I made a mistake, I made sure that I would never allow…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

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

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

Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I had my own label, Rising Force Records, and made records, but had them distributed to the chains, to the retailers, but…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing…

— Yngwie Malmsteen