Dick Dale Quotes
Enjoy the top 109 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Dick Dale.
“I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.”
— Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
— Dick Dale
— Dick Dale
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
— 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 and whacked 'em on the side of the head.
— Dick Dale
“There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”
— Dick Dale
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
— Dick Dale
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 played always soulful or very direct from the gut.
— Dick Dale
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
— Dick Dale
I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
— Dick Dale
Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.
— Dick Dale
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
— Dick Dale
“You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.”
— Dick Dale
“Drums were my first instrument.”
— Dick Dale
“I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.”
— Dick Dale
— Dick Dale
“I've been called 'the father of loud.'”
— Dick Dale
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
— Dick Dale
My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.
— Dick Dale
My music is more native than intricate or technical.
— 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've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.
— Dick Dale
I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.
— Dick Dale
I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.
— Dick Dale
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