Dimebag Darrell Quotes

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

It's about knowing how to make a groove happen and keep it going so others can play off it.

Andy Timmons is someone I've jammed with many times over the years, and we always have a great chemistry when playing together.

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

I wish that I will get to work with Gopi Sundar again and again.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.