The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat. . I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi … - Yngwie Malmsteen

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I'm going to fight to bring us all together, we're a divided nation. Very divided nation right now. We're going to be unified nation, a nation of love.

Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat. . I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died. . . then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence. . I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made

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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.

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Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

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What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

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I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

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I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

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