When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound. Dick Dale More Quotes by Dick Dale More Quotes From 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 next sound people I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me. Dick Dale fronts soul 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 ovation months son People just loved the sound because I kept it simple. Dick Dale simple sound people I became stereotyped. Dick Dale My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. Dick Dale aunt piano used I've got holes in my guitar. Dick Dale holes guitar 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 drug guy way The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown. Dick Dale guitar kings kids You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. Dick Dale ddt fish-tanks world 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 cowboy guitar song I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. Dick Dale infection legs I always felt people should live with animals. Dick Dale should animal people I became addicted to the point where I would be out there from sunup to sundown, i wouldn't do anything else. Dick Dale entertainment 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 entertainment Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by. Dick Dale live great you advice I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do. Dick Dale rocking cause which you Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!' Dick Dale say he you lips I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today. Dick Dale down guitar today way Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' Dick Dale down upside-down style guitar
