Dimebag Darrell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Play #Trying #Different
“The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Dad #Book #Play
“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Crowds
“Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Thinking #Bored #Musician
“Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Play #Band #Used
“It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Trying #Alternatives #Band
“I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Player #Texas #Guy
“Every song is different.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Song #Different
“A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Band #Tough
“I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Records #Just Listen
“My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Father #Men #Musician
“The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Dad #Book #Men
“Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Cds #Collections #Your Favorite
“... I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it...”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Music #Morning #Home
“Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#The End Of The Day #Tunes #Chill
“My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Brother #Hero #Writing
“I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#School #Kissing #Faces
“I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Player #Rocks #Guy
“Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#School #Work Out #Listening
“Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Song #People #Albums
“We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Cat #Kind #Lifetime
“I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Play #Sound #Different
“To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.”
-- Dimebag Darrell

#Guitar #Track #Sound

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