Author Profile
Dick Dale
1937 – 2019 • American • Musician
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesI grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.— 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
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
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.— Dick Dale
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.— Dick Dale
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
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'— 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
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.— Dick Dale
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
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 of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.— Dick Dale
For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse.— Dick Dale