Dimebag Darrell Quotes

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I've always had a great love for the blues.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.