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.
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.
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.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.
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.
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.
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
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 was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
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.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.