Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance. Yngwie Malmsteen More Quotes by Yngwie Malmsteen More Quotes From Yngwie Malmsteen The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself. Yngwie Malmsteen myself me change god When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible. Yngwie Malmsteen construction damn play song If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I've been very unhappy with the results. Yngwie Malmsteen look you music people I don't work with anybody on the music, of course. But my God, some of the lyrics that other people have written were so shallow: 'Hey baby this, hey baby that.' I need substance to the words, you know? Give me depth! Yngwie Malmsteen me music god work 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 I didn't 'practice' it. So yeah, you can always get better and improve your technique, but hopefully, that comes through being a musician and composing and being a creative individual. Yngwie Malmsteen you creativity music mind I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.' Yngwie Malmsteen learned say never It doesn't matter what you make - if you create a movie or build a car or whatever, it's the amount of blood, sweat, and tears and money and everything that goes into it that needs to be rewarded. Yngwie Malmsteen you car money tears I still love to go in the studio and write and all that. Yngwie Malmsteen write still go love I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence. Yngwie Malmsteen weird think intelligence music Someone like Allan Holdsworth sometimes plays the wackiest things, but does it with panache, such taste. Yngwie Malmsteen someone things like sometimes I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar player needs to seek help. Yngwie Malmsteen help think guitar life A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune. Yngwie Malmsteen you singing guitar people 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 what I do, I don't think about it. I don't try to do something - I just do it. And the more I do it that way, the more I surprise myself. And if I surprise myself, that's the best thing. Yngwie Malmsteen best myself guitar surprise Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system. Yngwie Malmsteen think you society philosophy
