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…

— Dimebag Darrell

Phew, youre gonna ruin me before I get to rock tonight, Ill take it easy though, only thing thats gonna get me…

— 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…

— Dimebag Darrell

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

— Dimebag Darrell

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted…

— Dimebag Darrell

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

— Dimebag Darrell

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

— Dimebag Darrell

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something…

— Dimebag Darrell

Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool,…

— Dimebag Darrell

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…

— Dimebag Darrell

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get…

— Dimebag Darrell

Damage, pure damage from brains to livers! As far as the record goes, its a very diverse record, very, very pummeling at…

— Dimebag Darrell

The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest…

— Dimebag Darrell

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do…

— Dimebag Darrell

The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to…

— Dimebag Darrell

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying…

— Dimebag Darrell

Sometimes you fuck up, son, so just blow it up, start again, but get preblown this time, then getcha pull!

— Dimebag Darrell

I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'

— Dimebag Darrell

The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.

— Dimebag Darrell

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of…

— Dimebag Darrell

When you're on the road, you've got to have your four-track - or some kind of recording device to jam on and…

— Dimebag Darrell

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

— Dimebag Darrell

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back -Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

— Dimebag Darrell

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and…

— Dimebag Darrell

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

— Dimebag Darrell

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy…

— Dimebag Darrell

Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that…

— Dimebag Darrell

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

— Dimebag Darrell

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

— Dimebag Darrell

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

— Dimebag Darrell

I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?

— 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

I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut…

— Dimebag Darrell

This is Dimebag, strapped up at the Airport, man, plane's all late and delayed and shit, and I'm looking at all these…

— 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…

— Dimebag Darrell