Dick Dale

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

— Dick Dale

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of…

— Dick Dale

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

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…

— 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…

— Dick Dale

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

— Dick Dale

...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...

— Dick Dale

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he…

— Dick Dale

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's…

— Dick Dale

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

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

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

— Dick Dale

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

— Dick Dale

That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone…

— Dick Dale

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

— 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've got holes in my guitar.

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

— Dick Dale

When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.

— Dick Dale

My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.

— Dick Dale

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

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

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale