Dimebag Darrell Quotes

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I'm done. I don't think I can do another one.' I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

Wu-Tang has only done, like, three rehearsals throughout our whole career.

We've always existed regardless of how popular our band is. We've been around for a while, and we can tour regardless of whether there's a single on the radio or not.

I know it takes more than one album to stay around.

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

We're so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we've been a four-piece for over 15 years. We're signed to a major label. We're on our fourth record on a major label. We've won a Grammy. We've toured the world.

We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

Xscape never had a flop album as a group. The reason we broke up never had anything to do with sales.