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" I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration. "

Dimebag Darrell

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

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

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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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" Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy. "

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

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" Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" Learn licks and songs from records. "

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