Yngwie Malmsteen Quotes

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.

Classical music can rock you!

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

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.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

I was born out of classical music.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.