"Surf music is actually just the sound of……" — Dick Dale

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

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60 Quotes by Dick Dale

Dick Dale has 60 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...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,…
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he…
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…
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…
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the…
I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you…
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid.…

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More Guitar Quotes

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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I… — Dan Aykroyd
I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. — Jensen Ackles
My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. — Tyra Banks
I'm full of dust and guitars. — Syd Barrett
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all… — Syd Barrett
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling… — Ritchie Blackmore
I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be… — Ritchie Blackmore
I don't see myself as such an important guitarist. — Ritchie Blackmore
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the… — Ritchie Blackmore

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