Chad Kroeger Quotes

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn`t lost somebody to a shooting before '” it wasn`t as though he`d been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn`t lost somebody to a shooting before —� it wasn`t as though he`d been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

We were a little scared of using piano. We just didn`t think it was very rock and roll.

It just complimented the part so well and really showed that we shouldn`t be narrow-minded.

We thought about when we were selling 5,000 copies of our record a week last year, when all we wanted to do was start selling 150,000 records a week, right. And now that we`re doing it, we don`t even think about it, all we ever think about is time off! I think we`d almost give up one week`s sales for one week off. Give up 100,000 records just to go to Hawaii.

How could you take his life away (What made you think you had the right?)/ How could you be so full of hate (To take away somebody`s life?)/ When I heard you let him die and leave the world, I wondered why/ I sat and home and on my own, I cried alone and scratched your name in the side of a bullet.

We are four lucky bastards -- not a day goes by that I don`t wake up and think, `I`m thankful to be able to play music for a living. And to be heard.`

I was very upset, and for two months if I saw his (Dimebag`s) picture somewhere I would get angry. It wasn`t as though he`d been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

I think it`s exactly the same,

(Paul volunteered to play on the song, so Kroeger overnighted him the tape and encouraged him to record a new drum track over the one played by Nickelback drummer Daniel Adair.) He thought about it for a while, ... then he decided that Daniel had done such an amazing job that we should leave it the way it was. That`s when he sent the guitar parts from Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven, which we used for the solo.

(Kroeger was introduced to Dimebag and Paul in 2002 in Dallas by former Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, who was touring as Nickelback`s opening act. A few drinks later, the ex-Pantera members admitted to Kroeger that they were big fans.) Vinnie told me he listened to Nickelback every day, which really surprised me, ... But I guess they come from that whole Southern-rock background, and we`re a hard-rock band with Southern-rock influences, so they liked it a lot.

I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar solo on it, and he was pumped to do it, ... That was the first time I appeared on a record with Dime, and now this. I just wish this wasn`t the way it had to happen.