Quotes About Dimebag Darrell

#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. 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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#3. 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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#4. Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

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

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#7. I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

Tony Scott

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

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

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

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#12. Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.

Haruki Murakami

#13. 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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#14. Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God's revealed truth is the only faith there is.

Oswald Chambers

#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. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.

Amy Poehler

#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. 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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#19. I think he saw his checklist as something pure - innocent as only science can be - but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices and crazy predispositions. When

Jon Ronson

#20. I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

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

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.

James Hansen

#25. Every song is different.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. When all the chips are down, always look on to God.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#30. If there is a lack in your life it is because there is a lack in your thoughts.

Robin Sharma

#31. If I woke up tomorrow and didn't have a dolla, as long as I have my heart, I can get it all over.

Wale

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

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