Dick Dale Quotes

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• ...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...
• 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…
• 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…
• I always felt people should live with animals.
• I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
• 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…
• I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
• I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
• I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.
• I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and…
• 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.
• Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
• 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…
• The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
• Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
• Every song is like a painting.
• I've got holes in my guitar.
• My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
• I became stereotyped.
• I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

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