Dimebag Darrell Quotes

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

This is one of those industries where you never have full control of your hair.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

I'm always going to need to play in front of people.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

At eight o'clock the curtain goes up and that's it, you're out there with yourself, the audience, the other players. There's no "take two" business. You're on. The great thing is the rehearsals, too. When you're bouncing around on film sets and TV sets you don't really get the opportunity to - generally speaking - rehearse much. With theater you're kind of four-to-five weeks locked down in the room with the guys figuring stuff out. It's back to play school.

I'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.

There might be two or three songs I'm trying out. I've been singing these songs (on the new album) in the studio, but I haven't really done them live. It's intimate to sing them in a studio. Now, I've got to be on a stage and be in front of a lot of people.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.