Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Dimebag Darrell
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
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.
Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.
Every song is different.
I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'
Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
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.
People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
The local dudes who knew that my dad owned a studio would say, 'Ahh, dude is spoiled,' and this and that. But we didn't abuse it at all. I'd always ask if we could use the studio first, and if our dad didn't want us there he would tell us, and that was that. But I definitely tried to get down there as often as I could.
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.
I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
I'm into sounds, man.
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.
I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.
A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
My first killer amp was a Sunn Beta Lead. It was solid-state, but that Sunn was incredibly loud. I used to say to my friends, 'Hey, check it out. It's only on two.'
Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
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.
Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
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.
Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.
Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
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.
Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.
Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.
I'm still the same cat I always was.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!
Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
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.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
Sometimes it's cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad - whatever combo sounds good.
My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
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.
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
I'm a spazzer, you know?
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'
The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
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.
You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
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.
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
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.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'
Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
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