Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

Dimebag Darrell

Dimebag Darrell Quotes

American - Musician August 20, 1966 - December 8, 2004

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

Chill, Will, Correct

Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy. Dimebag Darrell

Makeup, Play, Next

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things. Dimebag Darrell

New Things, Soul, New

With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs ,it'll be twice as killer. Dimebag Darrell

Doing, Other, Entertain

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself. Dimebag Darrell

Doing, Other, Which

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. Dimebag Darrell

Advice, Play, Ever

The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up! Dimebag Darrell

Me, Always, Give

If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you. Dimebag Darrell

Bad, Always, Happen

I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done. Dimebag Darrell

Ever, Gonna, Cause

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

Listening, Learn, Records

Even though I'll do finger warm-ups that go up and down the neck to build up my chops and dexterity, I never, ever sit around and practice the actual licks I'm gonna play live. If you do, then you'll be all worried about the complexity of getting the fingering right and everything else about it, as opposed to the feel. Dimebag Darrell

Practice, Play, Complexity

I'm a spazzer, you know? Dimebag Darrell

I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing. Dimebag Darrell

Love, Other, Jamming

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up. Dimebag Darrell

School, Face, Ace

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool. Dimebag Darrell

Play, Couple, Buds

'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff. Dimebag Darrell

Broken, Sound, Riff

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, Screwed, Some

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

Think, I Think, Over

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

Studio, Recording, Fathers

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration. Dimebag Darrell

Sabbath, Like, Mostly

Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes! Dimebag Darrell

Play, Sabbath, Tunes

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together. Dimebag Darrell

Play, Scale, Them

All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent. Dimebag Darrell

Accent, Means, Beats

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove. Dimebag Darrell

Play, Deal, Big

Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you. Dimebag Darrell

Always, Collection, CDs

On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand. Dimebag Darrell

Cut, Frustrated, Demos

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