Yngwie Malmsteen

“Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you're playing a cho...”

“People who join my organization are usually very cool at first, but they become troublesome later.”

“I've been playing for aeons now, but way, way back, I remember Eddie Van Halen came out ,and I loved his playing. He was amazing. But then everyone started copying his guitars with Floyds, a...”

“When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but...”

“I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.”