QUOTES by Dick Dale
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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.
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When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.
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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.
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I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.
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I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'
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I answer number one to myself, because I know myself. I answer to my fans, because they know me. My mother knows me and God knows me, and that's where it's at.
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I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.
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I smashed my tailbone and couldn't sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out!
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I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.
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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.
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I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
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I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.
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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.
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When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.
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Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
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I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
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I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.
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When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.
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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.
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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.
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I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
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I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
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