Dick Dale

I became stereotyped.

— Dick Dale

I've got holes in my guitar.

— Dick Dale

Every song is like a painting.

— Dick Dale

Dick Dale don't surf no more.

— Dick Dale

Drums were my first instrument.

— Dick Dale

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

— Dick Dale

Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

— Dick Dale

With every problem comes a gift in hand.

— Dick Dale

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

— Dick Dale

Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

— Dick Dale

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

— Dick Dale

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

— Dick Dale

I always felt people should live with animals.

— 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

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father…

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in…

— Dick Dale

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My…

— Dick Dale

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

— Dick Dale

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

— Dick Dale

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along…

— 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

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the…

— 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

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

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

— 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

I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills…

— Dick Dale

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really…

— Dick Dale

I've been called 'the father of loud.'

— Dick Dale

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

My music is more native than intricate or technical.

— Dick Dale

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

— Dick Dale

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

— Dick Dale

I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.'

— Dick Dale

Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'

— Dick Dale