Vinnie Paul Quotes

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Vinnie Paul

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1964

They call it a reunion for a reason. It's called bringing the original members back to what it was. So there's a lot of these things that they call reunions that aren't really reunions. They've got one dude from the band floating around in them, you know. That's not a true reunion. With Pantera, it'll never be possible.

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I drink almost a bottle of pickle juice every day, man, and it keeps me going great.

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John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

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Music is made to be heard, whether you hear it in concert, you hear it on the radio, or you hear it in your car. It's not for two people to sit in a closet and go, 'That's my band, the only band I've ever heard, and I'm the only person that's going to hear it.'

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I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

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The history of Pantera speaks for itself.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The guys from Hellyeah and the incredible music we've created have brought me back to what I love.

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I am one hundred percent dedicated to Hellyeah. I love what I do in this band. I'm really proud of this band. Everybody in this band is such a special person, and the music that we make together, I really believe, is very special and the next level in my life.

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If you live in the past, you've got no future.

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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.

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When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

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There's nothing like having some fresh blood out on the road with you.

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I would give anything if it went back to analog age. I mean, music was so real, and you had to sing everything on a record; you had to play everything on a record. There was no cut-and-paste - you couldn't get the chorus right one time and then paste it every other time; you really had to be good at what you did.

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