Beach Quote by 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 the stage…

— 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 one. It's…

— 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 probably have…

— 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 all kinds…

— 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 would always…

— 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 what music…

— 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