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Dick Dale  Quotes
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

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BiggerPhilosophySound
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I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I’ve played up there many times.

—Dick Dale

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You know what the doctors call me? ‘The Cancer Warrior.’

—Dick Dale

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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

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

—Dick Dale

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EatFishMillion
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Little Richard, he’d say, ‘Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!’

—Dick Dale

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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 become a vegetable. I wouldn’t be able to have all these...

—Dick Dale

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Today
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I don’t live with the ‘right’ people. I don’t want to. I don’t want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and...

—Dick Dale

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I don’t claim to be a musician, I didn’t go to Julliard.

—Dick Dale

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ClaimMusician
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The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it’s the real thing.

—Dick Dale

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

—Dick Dale

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I’m dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

—Dick Dale

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I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

—Dick Dale

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

—Dick Dale

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As I’d go out learning to surf, I’d feel the power of waves coming over my body. It’s like you’re with God.

—Dick Dale

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Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

—Dick Dale

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DoorMeet
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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

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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 got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat...

—Dick Dale

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I know what it’s like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

—Dick Dale

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The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed.

—Dick Dale

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

—Dick Dale

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I’m going to make people happy. I’m going to make them forget about their cancer. I’m going to make them forget about their diabetes.

—Dick Dale

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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

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I don’t like to use the word ‘fans;’ I call them ‘Dick Dale music lovers.’

—Dick Dale

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Dick Dale don’t surf no more.

—Dick Dale

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

—Dick Dale

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ListenPlayedSit
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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

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Thinking
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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

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I like to say, ‘I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.’

—Dick Dale

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HitType
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The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

—Dick Dale

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I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

—Dick Dale

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I’m not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing – that’s just one facet of my life.

—Dick Dale

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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

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I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

—Dick Dale

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CannotEnjoyLiving
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Drums were my first instrument.

—Dick Dale

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My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.

—Dick Dale

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What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They’re not your blood. They’re not your mind. You...

—Dick Dale

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I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we’ll sell you a...

—Dick Dale

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I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

—Dick Dale

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They’re putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

—Dick Dale

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Every song is like a painting.

—Dick Dale

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

—Dick Dale

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I’ve been called ‘the father of loud.’

—Dick Dale

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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...

—Dick Dale

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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

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Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that’s what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.

—Dick Dale

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My mind never left 20, because once it does, that’s when you start to die.

—Dick Dale

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When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn’t believe the sound. I said, ‘See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.’

—Dick Dale

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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 does.

—Dick Dale

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GuitarPain
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What I play now isn’t surf music. It’s too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

—Dick Dale

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PaperPowerful
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