Yngwie Malmsteen Quotes

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

The common denominator is a love of music.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.