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Famous Quotes By Dimebag Darrell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. — Dimebag Darrell

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

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It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.' — Dimebag Darrell

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Every song is different. — Dimebag Darrell

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A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is. — Dimebag Darrell

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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

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I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. — Dimebag Darrell