Dimebag Darrell Quotes

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

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

A minority may be right. The majority is always wrong.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

I would not be very comfortable doing the regular thing which we see on TV.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.