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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.

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

Dimebag Darrell

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

Dimebag Darrell

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

Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!

Dimebag Darrell

You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.

Dimebag Darrell

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

Dimebag Darrell

All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.

Dimebag Darrell

Learn licks and songs from records.

Dimebag Darrell

I'm not going for a soft sound. I ain't lookin' for a warm sound. My sound is warm, but I don't need tubes to do it. The Randall RG-100 is the best amp for what I do.

Dimebag Darrell

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

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

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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.

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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.

Dimebag Darrell

Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.

Dimebag Darrell

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

I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!

Dimebag Darrell

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

I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?

Dimebag Darrell

Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

Dimebag Darrell

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

Dimebag Darrell

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

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

Dimebag Darrell

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?'

Dimebag Darrell

The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.

Dimebag Darrell

Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.

Dimebag Darrell

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'

Dimebag Darrell

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.

Dimebag Darrell

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

Dimebag Darrell

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.

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Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Dimebag Darrell

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

Dimebag Darrell

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

Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.

Dimebag Darrell

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

Dimebag Darrell

I'm still the same cat I always was.

Dimebag Darrell

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.

Dimebag Darrell