Dimebag Darrell Quotes

If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought, 'This is really cool, I could get into this,' you're going to hate 'Casualties.'

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.

I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.

I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

I think Slayer is a funky band.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

I love such an intense lifestyle. I feel bad otherwise.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

For me, one of the things that I get excited about is getting in situations I shouldn't be in.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

Me being the metal fan that I am, I like to listen to thrash metal to get me pumped - that kind of music will get your heart racing and ready for a crowd.

Pighammer' is my pure vision of what I want to do, but at the same time, if you like Static-X, you will love 'Pighammer.'

I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.