Dick Dale Quotes

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Dick Dale

Pet, Love, Someone

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Dick Dale

Music, Patience, Anger

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
Dick Dale

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
Dick Dale

Music, Heart, Country

Every song is like a painting.
Dick Dale

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
Dick Dale

Power, Father, Guitar

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

Almost, Leg, Infection

I always felt people should live with animals.
Dick Dale

I became stereotyped.
Dick Dale

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

Cause, Rocking, Rockabilly

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Dick Dale

Play, Played, Instrument

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
Dick Dale

Musician, Claim, Julliard

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
Dick Dale

Love, Give, Helpless

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

Father, Second, Gave

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

Put, Wanted, Songs

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
Dick Dale

Time, Tell, Ask

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
Dick Dale

Soul, Front, Influenced

I've got holes in my guitar.
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

Good, Tell, Guy

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

Used, Listen, Played

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

Philosophy, Sound, Bigger

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
Dick Dale

Simple, Loved, Sound

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

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

Guitar, Kids, King

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

Fish, Eat, Million

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: May 4, 1937

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