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Every song is like a painting.
Dick Dale
There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Dick Dale
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.
Dick Dale
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Dick Dale
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
Dick Dale
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Dick Dale
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.
Dick Dale
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.
Dick Dale
Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
Dick Dale
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
Dick Dale
I became stereotyped.
Dick Dale
Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.
Dick Dale
I've got holes in my guitar.
Dick Dale
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Dick Dale
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
Dick Dale
I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.
Dick Dale
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
Dick Dale
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.
Dick Dale
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
Dick Dale
My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.
Dick Dale
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
Dick Dale
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
Dick Dale
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