I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times. — 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
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick… — 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
When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, 'I used to see this guy… — 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
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
