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Dimebag Darrell Quotes

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

– 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.

– Dimebag Darrell

I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other’s playing.

– Dimebag Darrell

Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like ‘Slaughtered.’

– Dimebag Darrell

I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!

– Dimebag Darrell

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

– Dimebag Darrell

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

– Dimebag Darrell

I’m into sounds, man.

– 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

‘I’m Broken’ was a sound check riff.

– Dimebag Darrell

Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

– Dimebag Darrell

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

– Dimebag Darrell

I’m not gonna say it’s all done, ’cause it ain’t ever all done.

– 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

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

– Dimebag Darrell

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

– Dimebag Darrell

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

– Dimebag Darrell

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you’d never dream of doing by yourself.

– Dimebag Darrell

Spittin’ blood, smokin’ guitars, fire everywhere – Kiss is where I started.

– Dimebag Darrell

Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I’ll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.

– Dimebag Darrell

As far as I’m concerned, it’s no good being able to wail out smokin’ leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

– Dimebag Darrell

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

– Dimebag Darrell

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

– Dimebag Darrell

If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it’ll always happen. It’s up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.

– Dimebag Darrell

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

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

– Dimebag Darrell

Sometimes it’s cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad – whatever combo sounds good.

– 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

Even though I’ll do finger warm-ups that go up and down the neck to build up my chops and dexterity, I never, ever sit around and practice the actual licks I’m gonna play live. If you do, then you’ll be all worried about the complexity of getting the fingering right and everything else about it, as opposed to the feel.

– Dimebag Darrell

My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.

– Dimebag Darrell

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