American - Musician | May 4, 1937 -
My music is more native than intricate or technical.
Dick Dale
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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.
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Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.
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When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.
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I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.
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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.
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I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.
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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.
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The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed.
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My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.
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I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.
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When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'
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