Music making Quote by Dimebag Darrell

Weve always done a bunch of musically diverse things. We were just showing a broader side of the band, the more melodic stuff we…

— Dimebag Darrell

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

— Justin Chancellor

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of…

— Dexter Holland

When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We tend to…

— Synyster Gates

We've incorporated different sounds from different countries and genres, and we've explored widening the range of our music.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing.…

— Zacky Vengeance

... if you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by…

— Jimmy Page

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

— Billy Squier

We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements,…

— Andy Biersack

With our music, we don't want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the…

— Maddie Marlow

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

— Mike McCready

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and…

— Rick Nielsen