American - Musician | August 20, 1966 - December 8, 2004
Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.
Dimebag Darrell
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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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Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
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With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs ,it'll be twice as killer.
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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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I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.
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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.
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To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.
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I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
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My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
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The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
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If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
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