Dimebag Darrell Quotes

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Every song is different.

Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

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

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.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.