American - Musician | May 4, 1937 -
In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.
Dick Dale
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The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.
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Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.
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I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.
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I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.
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Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.
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Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.
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I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.
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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.
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The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
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Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'
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