I listened to all those blues records. They were great – Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel, and I didn’t really understand the difference then, but something struck me about the inversions and the diminished chords… they weren’t as bluesy, and I loved it. I found out, that was very baroque-influenced. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
I always wrote everything – I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it’s just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different… like a bass player or a keyboard player – they’re not more important than any other musician. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
I’m very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there’s a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it’s kind of like a fakeness about it. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
Everything that I think that a society should offer someone, which is nothing other than the ability to be able to do what you wanna do, is offered by America. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, ‘Yngwie is God,’ I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it’s very flattering, it doesn’t change the way I look at myself. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
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 chord, and that’s exactly what you don’t want. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn’t start to play until I saw Hendrix on TV. They showed him setting his guitar on fire and burning it for the Monterey Pop Festival. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits – I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time. Yemi Osinbajo Read Quote
