Yngwie Malmsteen Quotes

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from listening to music and experimenting on your own.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I'm an interpreter of music.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

Music is all about creativity.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

I usually think in terms of music.