Yngwie Malmsteen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs ...
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#Music #Thinking #Guy
The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#Music #Guitar #Years
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#Substance
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#Music #Classical Music #Baroque Music
My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#Mom #Guitar #Musician
I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#Guitar
I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.
-- Yngwie Malmsteen

#School #Gigs #Bigs

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
Iâ€™ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, Iâ€™m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like thatâ€™s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, itâ€™s over. You feel like you canâ€™t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.
Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of ***** doesn't like pancakes?
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, â€œThat guy is kinda delusional.â€
I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

Yngwie Malmsteen famous quotes

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