I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.
With every problem comes a gift in hand.
Springsteen - he's the Lord God.
Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.
I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.'
I've got holes in my guitar.
That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.
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.
I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.
I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.
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.
The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed.
You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'
I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.
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.
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!
