Dimebag Darrell Quotes

From the get-go, I was wise enough to say, 'Well, I'm playing rhythm 'cause Angus could really soar with the leads.' I used to mess around a little bit with lead at the time but not much; Angus, he was just so much better; he just went for it, and it was brilliant. My place was sitting with rhythm, and I love rhythm. I've always loved it.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I know I'm not musically talented.

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.