I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
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… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.' — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound. — Dick Dale Copy Share
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage… — Dick Dale Copy Share
I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's… — Dick Dale Copy Share
I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have… — Dick Dale Copy Share
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… — Dick Dale Copy Share
Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em. — Dick Dale Copy Share
I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always… — Dick Dale Copy Share
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music… — Dick Dale Copy Share
I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body. — Dick Dale Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Dick Dale Copy Share
