Dimebag Darrell Quotes

Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

Our show is all about energy and all about the skill, so we never have to alter it for different audiences, although maybe we might get crazier at a punk-rock show. With kids moshing and crowd-surfing, we might have to get crazy as well.

I think our strongest suit is our live show.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

I really love live performing!

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.