Dick Dale Quotes
Top 82 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dick Dale
Dick Dale Famous Quotes & Sayings
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In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.
People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.
I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.
I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.
As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, 'I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!'
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.
I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.