Dimebag Darrell Quotes

• 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.

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  The End Of The Day, Tunes, Wakes You

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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.

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  Trying Different Things, Play, Notes

  "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.

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

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  Dad, Book, Play

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

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  Crowds, Knows, Ifs

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

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  Thinking, Bored, Musician

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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.

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  School, Work Out, Listening

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

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  Trying, Alternatives, Band

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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.

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  Music, Morning, Home

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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.

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  Guitar, Track, Sound

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

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  Records, Just Listen

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• A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

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  Band, Tough

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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.

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  Play, Band, Used

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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.

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  Play, Sound, Different

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

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  School, Kissing, Faces

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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.

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  Cat, Kind, Lifetime

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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.

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  Dad, Book, Men

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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.

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  Father, Men, Musician

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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.

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  Player, Rocks, Guy

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• Every song is different.

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  Song, Different

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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.

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  Song, People, Albums

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

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  Player, Texas, Guy

  "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.

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• Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

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  Cds, Collections, Your Favorite

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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.

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  Brother, Hero, Writing

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