Dimebag Darrell Quotes

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

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

Man, Water, Mirror, Kiss, School, Makeup

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

Heart, Soul, New Things, New, Try, Damn

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

Music, Day, Chill, End, End Of The Day

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

Man, Yourself, Cool, Me, Long, You

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

Yourself, People, Help, Energy, Dream

Learn licks and songs from records. Dimebag Darrell

Learn, Songs, Records

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs. Dimebag Darrell

Man, Me, Rock And Roll, Rock, Blues, Get

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

Yourself, Doing, You, Enjoy, Learn, Way

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, Writing, Heroes, Ace, Own, Like

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, Time, Me, Inspire, Band, Playing

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

Good, People, Song, Living, Way, Hard

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

Done, Say, Cause, Gonna, Ever

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

You, Enough, Bad, Always, Up, Happen

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

Kiss, School, Face, Paint, Ace, Used

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

Man, Me, Done, Always, Up, Give

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days. Dimebag Darrell

Love, Music, People, Loved, Back, Early

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something. Dimebag Darrell

You, Know, Something, Crowd, Improvise

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over. Dimebag Darrell

Learn, Listen, Over, Just, Roll, Records

Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life. Dimebag Darrell

Life, Me, Guitar, My Life, Changed

My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times. Dimebag Darrell

Live, Death, Pain, Hair, Performance

When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics. Dimebag Darrell

Sometimes, Bring, Two, First, Started

I'll sleep anywhere! Dimebag Darrell

Sleep, Anywhere

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it. Dimebag Darrell

Rejection, Go, Lines, Hard, Cheeks, Some

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.' Dimebag Darrell

Love, King, Living, Colour, Stain

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song! Dimebag Darrell

Time, Great, Me, Writing, Song, Fighting

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

Black, Hell, Inspiration, Sabbath, Like

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