Yngwie Quotes

#1. One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever.

Kirk Hammett

#2. My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

Oscar Isaac

#3. 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

#4. That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

Dean Koontz

#5. I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

Jane Lynch

#6. If you don't change your hairstyle because it's mostly fallen out and you don't shave, you've no cause to go chasing yourself in a mirror.

William Golding

#7. I just want you to know , I love serenity, and peace; no craziness, no weird people turning up in the middle of the night.

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

#8. I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#9. My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

Beyonce Knowles

#10. I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Yngwie Malmsteen

#12. What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#13. I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#14. Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

Ambrose Bierce

#15. I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

Stephen Sprouse

#16. I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Yngwie Malmsteen