Song Quotes by Dick Dale

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

— Dick Dale

Drums were my first instrument.

— Dick Dale

I've got holes in my guitar.

— Dick Dale

Every song is like a painting.

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed.

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

— Dick Dale

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

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

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

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

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing…

— Dick Dale

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

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

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by…

— Dick Dale

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

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

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if…

— 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…

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale