Dick Dale Quotes

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Dick Dale

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 4, 1937

I've got holes in my guitar.

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

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

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My music is more native than intricate or technical.

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Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

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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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That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.

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I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

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I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.

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I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

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My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

Dick Dale

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

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When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

Dick Dale

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 surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe.

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Drums were my first instrument.

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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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You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'

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Dick Dale don't surf no more.

Dick Dale

Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.

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