American - Musician | May 4, 1937 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
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I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
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Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
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Every song is like a painting.
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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.
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I've got holes in my guitar.
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Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
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I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
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You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.
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