Dimebag Darrell Quotes

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

I've been called 'the father of loud.'

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.

The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play with a drum set. They cease to sound like mandolins.

Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.