Dick Dale Quotes

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• There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

  Dick Dale

  Dog, Love You, Forever

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• 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

  People, Musician, World

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• I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

  Dick Dale

  Eye, Dies

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• I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

  Dick Dale

  Patience, Anger, Frustration

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• Every song is like a painting.

  Dick Dale

  Song, Painting

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• 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.

  Dick Dale

  Attitude, Stupid, Simple

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• I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

  Dick Dale

  Soul, Fronts

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• 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

  Mean, Two Sides, Ems

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• You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

  Dick Dale

  Sex, People, Sensual

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• I always felt people should live with animals.

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  Animal, People, Should

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• 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

  Country, Song, Girlfriend

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• Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

  Dick Dale

  Kings, Kids, Guitar

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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.

  Dick Dale

  Guy, Drug, Way

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• 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

  Philosophy, Gauges, Woods

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• People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

  Dick Dale

  Simple, People, Sound

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• 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.

  Dick Dale

  Way, Clock, Ask Me

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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.

  Dick Dale

  Son, Ovation, Months

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• I've got holes in my guitar.

  Dick Dale

  Guitar, Holes

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• My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

  Dick Dale

  Aunt, Piano, Used

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• I became stereotyped.

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• I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

  Dick Dale

  Musician, Claims

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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.

  Dick Dale

  People, Next, Sound

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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.

  Dick Dale

  Song, Cowboy, Guitar

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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.

  Dick Dale

  Play, Sound, Kind

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