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Dick Dale
American
May 4, 1937
Musician
Dick Dale don't surf no more.
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My music is more native than intricate or technical.
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You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'
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I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
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If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.
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The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
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I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.
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I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.
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My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
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I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.
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I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.
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I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.'
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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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I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
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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 like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'
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I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
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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.
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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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What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.
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I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.
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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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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.
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My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.
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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.
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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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