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" I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up. "

Dimebag Darrell

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" The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. "

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" When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics. "

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" Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself. "

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" Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life. "

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" With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs ,it'll be twice as killer. "

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" To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool. "

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" Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things. "

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" I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it. "

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" Yeah, nothing feels better than knowing that I can put a guitar in my hands at any time and rip - even when I'm taking a crap! "

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" I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done. "

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" When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?' "

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" My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff. "

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" If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you. "

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" When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell. "

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" Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays. "

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" My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times. "

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" I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing. "

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" I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.' "

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" I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over. "

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" Learn licks and songs from records. "

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" Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. "

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" Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn. "

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