Dimebag Quotes

#1. I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.

Mark Salling

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

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#4. The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.

Heather O'Neill

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

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#6. Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

Albert Einstein

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

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#9. Become broken in your flesh so that your spirit may receive the true love that was always meant to be in your life. His love will heal the ugly, bitter, painful brokenness and replace it with the beauty of real love.

Mandy Fender

#10. I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

Raekwon

#11. The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.

James Roday

#12. I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.

Ransom Riggs

#13. Your mom is right here with us, Elle. Her spirit's here giving my exhausted arm strength to keep hanging on. She's keeping the current from whipping us all to hell. She's keeping the tree shrapnel from getting anywhere near us." A small smile formed. "She's keeping us alive.

Nicole Williams

#14. Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

Helen Fisher

#15. 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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#16. There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

Brian Stableford

#17. 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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#18. This is what we are meant to do - protect, serve, cherish. What Maeve offers is... a mockery of that.

Sarah J. Maas

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

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#20. 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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#21. Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

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

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Every song is different.

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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

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