Words matter. These are the best Dimebag Darrell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
‘I’m Broken’ was a sound check riff.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an ‘alternative band.’
Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
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.
I’m a spazzer, you know?
I’m into sounds, man.
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?’
I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!
People that love this form of music have loved it from way back – Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
I’m not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I’ll give it a thumbs up!
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you’re on to something.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, ‘Well, I’m gonna play bluesy now.’
I’ve come to find out everybody loves ol’ David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.
I do some three-part harmonies on ‘Throes of Rejection’ and ‘Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,’ but I didn’t go overboard with it.
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.
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.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
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.
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.
On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I’d tell my dad, ‘Dude, I want more ‘cut’ on my guitar – I want more treble.’ And he’d say, ‘Now, son, you don’t want that. It’ll hurt your ears.’ But my dad just didn’t understand.
To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.
It’s funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to keep it because you realize that it’s gonna be real tough to beat!
I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other’s playing.
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.
Yeah, nothing feels better than knowing that I can put a guitar in my hands at any time and rip – even when I’m taking a crap!
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
I’ve tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it’s like, ‘That thing don’t really fit, man!’
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like ‘Slaughtered.’
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.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest – Metallica’s ‘Kill ‘Em All’ was also a hell of an inspiration.
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.
Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
Learn licks and songs from records.
I really respect Zakk Wylde’s guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X’s into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you’re into it, you’re into it for a lifetime.
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.
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.
Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.
Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
Spittin’ blood, smokin’ guitars, fire everywhere – Kiss is where I started.
I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of ‘Heresy.’
I respect the Pantera fans with all my heart.
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.
Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
Find someone you can jam with. That’s a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and ‘Eruption’ was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
I love ‘Dogman’ by King’s X and Living Colour’s ‘Stain.’
All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don’t normally accent.
I’ll sleep anywhere!
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.
