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I've been called 'the father of loud.'

I've been called 'the father of loud.'

Dick Dale

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

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

Dick Dale

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.

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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 just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

Dick Dale

I've got holes in my guitar.

Dick Dale

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.

Dick Dale

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

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

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

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

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

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

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Every song is like a painting.

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.'

Dick Dale

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

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

Dick Dale

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

Dick Dale

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

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

Dick Dale don't surf no more.

Dick Dale

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Dick Dale

I became stereotyped.

Dick Dale

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

Dick Dale

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

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