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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. "

Dimebag Darrell

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

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

Dimebag Darrell

Life

My Life

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

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

" Learn licks and songs from records. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dimebag Darrell

Own

Heroes

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "