Yngwie Malmsteen quotes
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“... 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 ...”
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“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”
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“Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.”
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“I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.”
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“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.”
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“I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.”
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“I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.”
-- Yngwie Malmsteen
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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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