What I was trying to do was actually capture the sound of being out in the ocean, when I'd be out there surfing, I could feel this thunderous sound. It was just like the screaming, the roar of the tiger. When I started banging on my guitar, I was trying to emulate that same sound - that fat, thick sound.

Dick Dale

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There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a... by Dick Dale

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

dog forever love-you

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.

girlfriend song country

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

frustration anger patience

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.

musician people world

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

guitar player father

Every song is like a painting. by Dick Dale

Every song is like a painting.

painting song

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.

gauges woods philosophy

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

sensual sex people

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.

ask-me clock way

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.

two-sides ems mean

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes,... by Dick Dale

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

dies eye

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.

uncles ears sound

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

simple stupid attitude

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are abou... by Dick Dale

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

sheets explaining song

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

mets guru father

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

lions giving people

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

horny keyboards play

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.

kind sound play

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

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

perfectionist cheating people

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

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

musician claims