Dimebag Darrell Quotes

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Anyone who's really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, 'Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.' That's how we do it. At a certain point, we're cutting scripts that we love.

Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

So we draw a picture of what we want as a team and will follow that - understanding that sometimes you might have to do a new wall or the kitchen is not like that and you have to change it. But the idea is to follow the plan.

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.