Dimebag Darrell's Quotes
Born: 1966-08-20
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Dimebag Darrell
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.
Tags: Beauty, Started, TryingMusicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Tags: Bored, Musicians, PlayingWe still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
Tags: Cats, Coming, OnceIf you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
Tags: Crowd, Improvise, RiffAlways have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.
Tags: Collection, FavoriteEvery song is different.
Tags: SongI was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
Tags: Enough, Great, LuckyI was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
Tags: Guys, Players, RockI would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
Tags: Learn, Listen, RecordsIt kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
Tags: Off, Themselves, TryingLessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
Tags: Learning, School, WorkMusic drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
Tags: Chill, End, MusicPantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
Tags: Living, Start, UsedBetween 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.
Tags: Good, Hard, LivingMy 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.
Tags: After, Brother, WritingMy 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.
Tags: Living, Old, StartedThe 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.
Tags: Book, Dad, TryTo 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.
Tags: Guitar, Lead, Sound