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Hellyeah have great fans.
Jacques Cousteau was my hero.
'The Will To Survive' is a great track.
The history of Pantera speaks for itself.
If you live in the past, you've got no future.
I wanna look forward; I wanna keep moving forward.
I wouldn't want my funeral to be a sad, sappy thing.
Dime knew the importance of every aspect of playing the guitar.
Vodka is much easier on your system than dark whisky and stuff.
When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be an oceanographer.
Tommy Aldridge is the guy that made me wanna play double kick, man.
I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.
I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.
The first time I heard Kiss, I knew that was the type of music I was attracted to.
I drink almost a bottle of pickle juice every day, man, and it keeps me going great.
John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.
Probably some of the most impressive drumming I've done is on the 'Far Beyond Driven' record.
I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.
I used to be a free-loving, free-caring person with no worries. We lived with no fear, you know?
I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.
We made this mountain with 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb.
It's a dangerous world, man. You've gotta keep your eyes and ears peeled and be on the alert all the time.
Pantera is a marquee band, with the most diehard fans. We sold over 20 million records without MTV or radio.
Even though Peter Criss is a pretty simple player, he played with great feel and made the music get up and go.
Slayer is one of my favorite bands of all time, and to be on a tour with them is absolutely a dream come true.
When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.
I love cooking fajitas. I'm from Texas, and it's not a difficult thing to do, but a lot of people burn the chicken.
I love being on the road; I love traveling. I love interacting with the fans and friends and fans and metal on the way.
You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.
My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.
A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.
That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.
The most important thing about drinking on the road is just you've gotta do it in moderation, first of all. You've gotta know your limits.
It doesn't matter if you load it on a DVD, if you videotape it, it doesn't matter. There's nothing more exciting than being at a live show.
To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It's just incredible to watch!
I like to live for today and what's coming up tomorrow, and I love what we're doing with Hellyeah. And that's my focus, and that's my goal, man.
Alex Van Halen... I loved his playing because he had so much energy; he made those songs exciting, along with everything else that went with him.
We did everything we could to hold Pantera together and fought for it until the very end, and now that it's gone we're 100% focused on Damageplan.
People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like playing music; I want to play with a band.
I don't understand why somebody would wanna scratch their name in somebody's tombstone or anything. But fans are rabid, man; they do unheard-of things.
I will never take anything away from Pantera. It was great; we had fourteen amazing years together. But it's no longer here. My brother is no longer here.
Sometimes you get too jaded, too seasoned. With Hellyeah, we've been having a lot of fun. From the minute we sat down in the studio, there was a lot of energy.
In 1999, we did a thing called the 'Reinventing The Steel' tour with Pantera, when I was still with them, and Slayer was part of that, and it was a great tour.
As a drummer, I always approach things as, 'I want to play just enough to keep other drummers interested, but not enough to go over the average listener's head.'
In 1994, we had the first record by a true heavy metal band to ever hit the Billboard top No. 1 slot. We paved the way. And we always waved the heavy metal flag.
Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that, you know.
If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff: dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dekka dek.
With Damageplan, we had to endure the Pantera fans, because Pantera is what they really wanted. But with Hellyeah, at a show in Baltimore, the crowd knew all the words.
It's unfortunate that people go, 'Oh, wow, man, they can get Zakk Wylde to jump up there on stage, and it's Pantera again.' No, it's not, you know. It's not that simple.
You know I'm a firm believer that women come in all shapes and all sizes and you know certain people like certain things. It's all good, whether it's big, small, whatever.