Dimebag Darrell Quotes

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express yourself. I realized how much joy it could bring and how much that meant to me.

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

Dancing has always been my comfort zone.

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Art is not only about angst.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

Music is my release.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Playing my drums is therapy.