Dick Dale Quotes

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Dick Dale

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 4, 1937

I became stereotyped.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

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I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

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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.

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

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

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

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I always felt people should live with animals.

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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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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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I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

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Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

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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.

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