Yngwie Malmsteen Quotes

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

I think the days before cell phones, when it was dirt clod wars at construction sites, was a lot more wholesome and productive, to be perfectly honest.

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home.

One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.