Dimebag Darrell Quotes

If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'

If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea.

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.