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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. "

Dimebag Darrell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Learn licks and songs from records. "

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

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

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

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