Dimebag Darrell Quotes

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

I've always wanted to make songs.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

I'm a composer, man.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

I write my music.

I write on all instruments.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.