Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I always felt people should live with animals.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

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
Dick Dale

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

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
Dick Dale

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

My music is more native than intricate or technical.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

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.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

Drums were my first instrument.

Dick Dale
Dick Dale

Dick Dale don't surf no more.