Dick Dale Quotes

• You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

  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

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

  Dick Dale

• When I start playing I’m just a rollercoaster of sound. I don’t know what’s coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

  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

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

  Dick Dale

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

  Dick Dale

• People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

  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 son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s been on the drums. He’s got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

  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

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

  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

• I’ve got holes in my guitar.

  Dick Dale

• I’m constantly being influenced by the soul that’s directly in front of me.

  Dick Dale

• I’m a perfectionist. I’m not going to cheat the people.

  Dick Dale

• 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

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

  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

• I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I’m not leaving ’til it’s done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

  Dick Dale

Dick Dale (36)

Birth:	4th May, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist

About

Dick Dale was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He pioneered the surf music style, drawing on Eastern musical scales and experimenting with reverberation. His technique influenced future guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom-made Fender amplifiers. Among Dale’s most well-known songs are “Misirlou”, “Surf Beat”, and “Let’s Go Trippin’”. In 2009, he was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, TN.

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