Dick Dale Quotes

Quotes about:

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

48 Copy quote
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

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

Dick Dale

Patience, Anger, Frustration

10 Copy quote
I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

Dick Dale

Eye, Dies

4 Copy quote
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

5 Copy quote
Every song is like a painting.

Dick Dale

Song, Painting

8 Copy quote
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

Dick Dale

Kings, Kids, Guitar

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

Dick Dale

Soul, Fronts

4 Copy quote
I always felt people should live with animals.

Dick Dale

Animal, People, Should

5 Copy quote
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

24 Copy quote
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

9 Copy quote
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

15 Copy quote
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

12 Copy quote
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

4 Copy quote
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

7 Copy quote
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

12 Copy quote
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

4 Copy quote
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

Father, Guru, Mets

8 Copy quote
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

52 Copy quote
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

Dick Dale

Simple, People, Sound

4 Copy quote
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

Dick Dale

People, Giving, Lions

67 Copy quote
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Dick Dale

Aunt, Piano, Used

7 Copy quote
I've got holes in my guitar.

Dick Dale

Guitar, Holes

7 Copy quote
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

Dick Dale

Song, Sheets, Explaining

4 Copy quote
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Dick Dale

Play, Horny, Keyboards

8 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Link Wray

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Annette Funicello

Dick Dale

Follow

Born: May 4, 1937
Occupation: Guitarist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics