Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes
I always go for that live, honest feel when I'm going for that first rhythm track. I'll never hold back on a part just so it'll be easier for me to double it later on - to my ears, it sounds sterile if you do that. I always want to get that initial track kicking and full of slurs, squeals and feel. I'll worry about doubling it later!
Quotes to Explore
-
As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
-
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
-
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
-
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
-
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
-
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
-
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
-
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
-
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
-
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
-
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
-
I view myself as a male artist.
-
I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
-
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
-
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
-
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
-
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
-
By now, people should know who I am. I have established myself as Rich the Kid, so people respect me.
-
In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.
-
Money is not a fund of knowledge.
-
I always go for that live, honest feel when I'm going for that first rhythm track. I'll never hold back on a part just so it'll be easier for me to double it later on - to my ears, it sounds sterile if you do that. I always want to get that initial track kicking and full of slurs, squeals and feel. I'll worry about doubling it later!
