Dick Dale Quotes

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Dick Dale

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 4, 1937

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.

Dick Dale

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

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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.

Dick Dale

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

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When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

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I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

Dick Dale

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

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My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

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I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

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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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Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

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Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

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Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

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People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, 'I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!'

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In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

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The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

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Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.

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I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

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I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

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Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

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